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Local health traditions : plurality and marginality in south Asia / Arima Mishra

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: India Orient BlackSwan 2019Description: 328 pISBN:
  • 9789352876617
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 615.8809 MIS-A
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The study of medical pluralism, characterised by the authoritative presence of the state in defining ‘legitimate’ inclusion and exclusion, has long been studied in medical anthropology. However, recent scholarship has begun to question this statist frame. Local health traditions extends this discussion by focusing on the ‘marginal’ categories of medicine and healing that range from home remedies and herbal medicine to dais, bone-setters and spiritual healers. These different forms of medicine have recently come to be known as ‘local health traditions’ in the policy texts.

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