Hardiman / Mukharji Medical Marginality in South Asia

Situating Subaltern Therapeutics
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-28402-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

Reihe: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hardiman, David

Mukharji, Projit Bihari

Mukharji, Projit

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Islands 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

Über Autor(innen)

David Hardiman is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Warwick, UK. His research interests include the Indian peasantry, tribal movements in India, medical history, and Gandhi and nonviolent resistance.

Projit Bihari Mukharji is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science, the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His research interests include subaltern sciences, everyday technologies, vernacularized "western" sciences and modernized "indigenous" knowledge traditions in South Asia.