Medical marginality in South Asia : situating subaltern therapeutics / / edited by David Hardiman and Projit Bihari Mukharji

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Disciplina: 615.50954
• Soggetto topico: Complementary Therapies - India; Complementary Therapies - history - India; Health services accessibility - India; Health services accessibility - history - India; Medicine, Traditional - India; Medicine, Traditional - history - India; Socioeconomic Factors - India
• Altri autori: HardimanDavid MukharjiProjit Bihari
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 IndiaSelect bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "This book demarcates and records subaltern therapy as a distinct realm that both interacts with and resists statist medicine. It provides a more integrated approach that places the subaltern subject and subaltern therapy in an ongoing and historical relationship with state-sanctioned and elite forms of medical practice. Focusing on those who exist and practice in the shadow of statist medicine, examining how they operate, and how they experience being in this position, it offers a means to understand how subaltern practice has evolved and changed over time, and how it has related in ever-changing ways to other forms of medicine and healing. The result shows that there is considerable fluidity in this, so that a type of practice may be elite in one context, subaltern in another. Contributors examine statist medicine from a critical perspective, the forms that subaltern therapy assumes, and their logics, as well as the problem of transition, one of the central concerns of subaltern historiography. Finally, other forms of diverse therapeutic practice are discussed, which continue to enjoy mass popular support in South Asia to this day. Addresses an area of research that is expanding rapidly among anthropologists and historians today and including contributions by some of the leading figures in South Asian history, this book is a path-breaking contribution to the study of medicine and society, history and South Asian Studies"--Provided by publisher.
• ISBN: 0-203-11282-2; 1-136-28403-6; 9780203112823
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911144781803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Intersections (London, England) ; ; 6.