At the Limits of Cure - Venkat Bharat Jayram
At the Limits of Cure - Venkat Bharat Jayram Can a history of cure be more than a history of how disease comes to an end? But just half a century later, reports out of Mumbai stoked fears about the…
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At the Limits of Cure - Venkat Bharat Jayram
Can a history of cure be more than a history of how disease comes to an end? But just half a century later, reports out of Mumbai stoked fears about the spread of totally drug-resistant strains of the disease. In 1950s Madras, an international team of researchers demonstrated that antibiotics were effective in treating tuberculosis.
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. Had the curable become incurable? 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
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The Limits of My Language
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