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Record Nr.

UNINA9910512208803321

Autore

Venkat Bharat Jayram

Titolo

At the limits of cure / / Bharat Jayram Venkat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-4780-2202-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 287 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Critical global health

Disciplina

614.542

Soggetti

Tuberculosis - India - Prevention

Tuberculosis - Prevention

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The Incurability of Fantasy -- To Cure an Earthquake -- Cure Is Elsewhere -- From Ash to Antibiotic -- Wax and Wane -- After the Romance Is Over -- India after Antibiotics.

Sommario/riassunto

"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."