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At the Limits of Cure (Hardcover)
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At the Limits of Cure (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
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Can a history of cure be more than a history of how disease comes
to an end? In 1950s Madras, an international team of researchers
demonstrated that antibiotics were effective in treating
tuberculosis. But just half a century later, reports out of Mumbai
stoked fears about the spread of totally drug-resistant strains of
the disease. Had the curable become incurable? Through an
anthropological history of tuberculosis treatment in India, Bharat
Jayram Venkat examines what it means to be cured, and what it means
for a cure to come undone. At the Limits of Cure tells a story that
stretches from the colonial period-a time of sanatoria, travel
cures, and gold therapy-into a postcolonial present marked by
antibiotic miracles and their failures. Venkat juxtaposes the
unraveling of cure across a variety of sites: in idyllic hill
stations and crowded prisons, aboard ships and on the battlefield,
and through research trials and clinical encounters. If cure is
frequently taken as an ending (of illness, treatment, and suffering
more generally), Venkat provides a foundation for imagining cure
otherwise in a world of fading antibiotic efficacy.
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