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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Bharat Jayram Venkat
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface ix
Introduction. The Incurability of Fantasy 1
1. To Cure an Earthquake 23
2. Cure Is Elsewhere 77
3. From Ash to Antibiotic 121
4. Wax and Wane 165
5. After the Romance Is Over 209
Epilogue. India after Antibiotics 249
Acknowledgments 257
Bibliography 261
Index 281
Introduction. The Incurability of Fantasy 1
1. To Cure an Earthquake 23
2. Cure Is Elsewhere 77
3. From Ash to Antibiotic 121
4. Wax and Wane 165
5. After the Romance Is Over 209
Epilogue. India after Antibiotics 249
Acknowledgments 257
Bibliography 261
Index 281
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
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Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
Rubrik: | Sozialwissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Seiten: | 302 |
Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
ISBN-13: | 9781478014720 |
ISBN-10: | 1478014725 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Venkat, Bharat Jayram |
Hersteller: | Duke University Press |
Maße: | 229 x 152 x 17 mm |
Von/Mit: | Bharat Jayram Venkat |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.10.2021 |
Gewicht: | 0,441 kg |
Über den Autor
Bharat Jayram Venkat
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface ix
Introduction. The Incurability of Fantasy 1
1. To Cure an Earthquake 23
2. Cure Is Elsewhere 77
3. From Ash to Antibiotic 121
4. Wax and Wane 165
5. After the Romance Is Over 209
Epilogue. India after Antibiotics 249
Acknowledgments 257
Bibliography 261
Index 281
Introduction. The Incurability of Fantasy 1
1. To Cure an Earthquake 23
2. Cure Is Elsewhere 77
3. From Ash to Antibiotic 121
4. Wax and Wane 165
5. After the Romance Is Over 209
Epilogue. India after Antibiotics 249
Acknowledgments 257
Bibliography 261
Index 281
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
---|---|
Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
Rubrik: | Sozialwissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Seiten: | 302 |
Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
ISBN-13: | 9781478014720 |
ISBN-10: | 1478014725 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Venkat, Bharat Jayram |
Hersteller: | Duke University Press |
Maße: | 229 x 152 x 17 mm |
Von/Mit: | Bharat Jayram Venkat |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.10.2021 |
Gewicht: | 0,441 kg |
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