TY  - BOOK
AU  - edited by Mishra, Arima
TI  - Local health traditions: plurality and marginality in south Asia 
SN  - 9789352876617
U1  - 615.8809 MIS-A 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - India
PB  - Orient BlackSwan
KW  - Traditional medicine -- India
KW  - Women healers -- India
KW  - Traditional medicine
N1  - 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
ER  -