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A Social History of Healing in India
De-Centring Indigenous Medicine
Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
This book re-connects the history of medicine with the social and political history of India. It analyzes the popular and subaltern healing practices in the region, and moves away from the view that a relatively homogenous and discrete set of practices, organized under the name of ‘indigenous’...
To Be Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
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Medical Marginality in South Asia
Situating Subaltern Therapeutics
Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
Examining the world of popular healing in South Asia, this book looks at the way that it is marginalised by the state and medical establishment while at the same time being very important in the everyday lives of the poor. It describes and analyses a world of ‘subaltern therapeutics’ that both...
To Be Published June 24th 2012 by Routledge
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Football: From England to the World
Series: Sport in the Global Society
This book is a fascinating journey through a series of scholarly articles. The journey begins by tracing one of the most significant stories in the popularization of Association Football. In the next leg of the journey it charts the diverse and changing face of the modern British game. It then...
Published November 10th 2008 by Routledge