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Medical Marginality in South Asia - Situating Subaltern Therapeutics (Hardcover)
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Medical Marginality in South Asia - Situating Subaltern Therapeutics (Hardcover)
Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
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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 both interacts with and resists
state-sanctioned and elite forms of medical practice. The
relationship is seen as both a historical as well as ongoing one.
Focusing on those who exist and practice in the shadow of statist
medicine, the book discusses the many ways in which they try to
heal a range of maladies, and how they experience their
marginality. The contributors also provide a history of such
therapeutics, in the process challenging the widespread belief that
such 'traditional' therapeutics are relatively static and
unchanging. In focusing on these problems of transition, they open
up one of the central concerns of subaltern historiography. This is
an important contribution to the history of medicine and society,
and subaltern and South Asian studies.
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