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| Other authors / contributors: | Deb Roy, Rohan, editor.
Attewell, Guy N. A., editor.
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| ISBN: | 9780199092093 (ebook) : No price
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| Notes: | This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 22, 2019).
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| Summary: | This volume interrogates the foundational categories that have come to define medical science in modern South Asia. Through case studies ranging from nineteenth- to twenty first-centuries, it addresses the following questions: How and in what conditions does an event, a substance, an actor, an institution or a particular situation of the body-mind become or cease to be considered `medical' and according to whom? How did contingent political histories engender the medical? How does the medical, in turn, reshape and sustain political categories? Is the medical necessarily a stable, coherent and continuous category? In what ways are the rigid boundaries between the medical and the nonmedical blurred?
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| Target Audience: | Specialized.
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| Other form: | Print version : 9780199486717
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