Overview

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.

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Author:   David Hardiman (University of Warwick, UK) ,  Projit Mukharji
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9780415502412

ISBN 10:   0415502411
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   21 June 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"1. Agendas Guy Attewell, David Hardiman, Helen Lambert and Projit Bihari Mukharji 2. Introduction David Hardiman and Projit Mukharji 3. Community, State, and the Body: Epidemics and Popular Culture in Colonial India Dipesh Chakrabarty 4. ""Pain in all the Wrong Places"": The Experience of Biomedicine among the Ongee of Little Andaman Islands Vishvajit Pandya 5. Chandshir Chikitsha: A Nomadology of Subaltern Medicine Projit Bihari Mukharji 6. Wrestling with Tradition: Towards a Subaltern Therapeutics of Bonesetting and Vessel Treatment in North India Helen Lambert 7. A Subaltern Christianity: Faith Healing in Southern Gujarat David Hardiman 8. The Modernising Bhagat Gauri Raje 9. The Politics of Poison: Healing, Empowerment and Subversion in Nineteenth-Century India David Arnold"

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David Hardiman is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Warwick, UK. Projit Bihari Mukharji is Professor in the Department of History at McMaster University, Canada.

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