At the Limits of Cure
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Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME)Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
tuberculosis; India; temporality; imagination; antibiotic resistance; AMR; anthropological historyDOI
10.1215/9781478022022ISBN
9781478091776, 9781478022022, 9781478013792, 9781478014720, 9781478091776Publisher
Duke University PressPublisher website
https://www.dukeupress.edu/Publication date and place
Durham, 2021Grantor
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Human biology
Anthropology
Asia
History of medicine