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Publisher: Bloomsbury India

Language: ENGLISH

Publication date: Fri May 2024

Pages: 304

ISBN: 9789393715425

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    How does one narrate a story of endings? At the Limits of Cure chronicles the fantasies of ending tuberculosis and the end of disease itself. Tying evocative histories of science to nuanced ethnography, Bharat Jayram Venkat reveals the attachments to curative reason that bind the clinic, the nation, and the globe. This electric and stunningly original book is infused with curiosity. ― Harris Solomon, author of Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India

    At the Limits of Cure is a work of art. Its medium includes historical and biographical narrative, medical journals, mythology, film, literature, and the keenest of ethnography. Thinking cure this carefully?not as an object, but as a desire and praxis?proves to be both a magical and a melancholic endeavor, riven with failures, false starts, and incurable imagination. Readers, specialists, and dreamers in cultural and medical anthropology, South Asian studies, and science and technology studies will love this highly original book. ― Naisargi N. Dave, author of Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics

    This superbly written book weaves together a remarkable tale of tuberculosis in India. It is at once a transnational history of medical science and technology, an ethnohistory of the experience of disease, an ethnography of medicine, a history of India through the lens of public health, and, at its core, a compelling discussion of the complex, cultural discourse on the concept of 'cure,' not only in the history of medicine, but in the desires of doctors and governments, the self-understanding of patients, and even in Hindu mythology. ―     Joseph W. Elder Prize Committee

    Book Description

    Examines what it means to be cured and what it means for a cure to come undone.
     

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    How does one narrate a story of endings? At the Limits of Cure chronicles the fantasies of ending tuberculosis and the end of disease itself. Tying evocative histories of science to nuanced ethnography, Bharat Jayram Venkat reveals the attachments to curative reason that bind the clinic, the nation, and the globe. This electric and stunningly original book is infused with curiosity. ― Harris Solomon, author of Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India

    At the Limits of Cure is a work of art. Its medium includes historical and biographical narrative, medical journals, mythology, film, literature, and the keenest of ethnography. Thinking cure this carefully?not as an object, but as a desire and praxis?proves to be both a magical and a melancholic endeavor, riven with failures, false starts, and incurable imagination. Readers, specialists, and dreamers in cultural and medical anthropology, South Asian studies, and science and technology studies will love this highly original book. ― Naisargi N. Dave, author of Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics

    This superbly written book weaves together a remarkable tale of tuberculosis in India. It is at once a transnational history of medical science and technology, an ethnohistory of the experience of disease, an ethnography of medicine, a history of India through the lens of public health, and, at its core, a compelling discussion of the complex, cultural discourse on the concept of 'cure,' not only in the history of medicine, but in the desires of doctors and governments, the self-understanding of patients, and even in Hindu mythology. ―     Joseph W. Elder Prize Committee

    Book Description

    Examines what it means to be cured and what it means for a cure to come undone.

    About the Author

    Dr. Bharat Jayram Venkat is an assistant professor at UCLA's Institute for Society & Genetics with a joint appointment in the Department of History. He is also affiliated with the UCLA Center for India & South Asia, the Program in Digital Humanities, and the Urban Humanities Initiative. His research focuses broadly on questions related to science & medicine, ethics, race, environment, and design.

     

     

    Product Name At the Limits of Cure: India's Battle Against Tuberculosis
    Product Sub Title At the Limits of Cure: India's Battle Against Tuberculosis
    Author by Bharat Jayram Venkat
    Publisher Bloomsbury India
    Publishing Year 2022
    Pages 304
    Language ENGLISH
    Product Code RIPIN1655533872
    ISBN13 9789393715425
    Shipping Time 2 Days

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