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Author Venkat, Bharat Jayram, 1984- author.

Title At the limits of cure / Bharat Jayram Venkat
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 287 pages) : illustrations
Series Critical global health: evidence, efficacy, ethnography
Critical global health.
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
Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Tuberculosis -- India -- History -- 20th century
Tuberculosis -- Treatment -- India
Tuberculosis -- India -- Prevention
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural & Social.
HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis -- Prevention.
Tuberculosis -- Treatment.
India.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021009365
ISBN 9781478022022
1478022027
1478091770
9781478091776