At the limits of cure / Bharat Jayram Venkat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Venkat, Bharat Jayram, 1984- author.

Series:

Critical global health

Critical global health : evidence, efficacy, ethnography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tuberculosis--India--History--20th century.

Tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis--Treatment--India.

Tuberculosis--India--Prevention.

Tuberculosis--Prevention.

Tuberculosis--Treatment.

History.

India.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The incurability of fantasy

To cure an earthquake

Cure is elsewhere

From ash to antibiotic

Wax and wane

After the romance is over

India after antibiotics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781478013792

1478013796

9781478014720

1478014725

OCLC:

1243263207