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Medical Marginality in South Asia : Situating Subaltern Therapeutics.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- List of illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- A note on dates
- 1 Agendas
- 2 Introduction
- 3 Community, state and the body: epidemics and popular culture in colonial India
- 4 'Pain in all the wrong places': the experience of biomedicine among the Ongee of Little Andaman Island
- 5 Chandshir Chikitsha: a nomadology of subaltern medicine
- 6 Wrestling with tradition: towards a subaltern therapeutics of bonesetting and vessel treatment in north India
- 7 A subaltern Christianity: faith healing in southern Gujarat
- 8 The modernising bhagat
- 9 The politics of poison: healing, empowerment and subversion in nineteenth-century India
- Select bibliography
- Index