Medical Marginality in South Asia: Situating Subaltern Therapeutics (Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories, 6, Band 6) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1138948292 ISBN 13: 9781138948297

Verlag: Routledge, 2015

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Examining the world of popular healing in South Asia, this book looks at the way that it is marginalised by the state and medical establishment while at the same time being very important in the everyday lives of the poor. It describes and analyses a world of 'subaltern therapeutics' that both interacts with and resists state-sanctioned and elite forms of medical practice. The relationship is seen as both a historical as well as ongoing one.

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David Hardiman is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Warwick, UK. His research interests include the Indian peasantry, tribal movements in India, medical history, and Gandhi and nonviolent resistance.

Projit Bihari Mukharji is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science, the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His research interests include subaltern sciences, everyday technologies, vernacularized "western" sciences and modernized "indigenous" knowledge traditions in South Asia.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138948292
• ISBN 13: 9781138948297
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216
• Herausgeber: Hardiman David, Mukharji Projit
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: BOOKS etc..; cs@booksetc.co.uk; ; BOOKS etc.; Aldershot; Vereinigtes Königreich
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