Bharat Jayram Venkat

At the Limits of Cure

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on historical and ethnographic research on tuberculosis in India, Bharat Jayram Venkat explores what it means to be cured and what it means for a cure to be partial, temporary, or selectively effective.

Produktdetails

• Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9781478014720
• ISBN-10: 1478014725
• Artikelnr.: 61938208

Autorenporträt

Bharat Jayram Venkat

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  ix
Introduction. The Incurability of Fantasy  1
1. To Cure an Earthquake  23
2. Cure Is Elsewhere  77
3. From Ash to Antibiotic  121
4. Wax and Wane  165
5. After the Romance Is Over  209
Epilogue. India after Antibiotics  249
Acknowledgments  257
Bibliography  261
Index  281