At the Limits of Cure

Venkat, Bharat Jayram

doi:10.1215/9781478022022

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Venkat, Bharat Jayram

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Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME)

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English

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Abstract

Drawing on historical and ethnographic research on tuberculosis in India, Bharat Jayram Venkat explores what it means to be cured and what it means for a cure to be partial, temporary, or selectively effective.

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https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/74606

Keywords

tuberculosis; India; temporality; imagination; antibiotic resistance; AMR; anthropological history; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSX Human biology; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology; thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia; thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine