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ISBN | 9789352876617 |
Format | HardBound |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2019 |
Bib. Info | Xvi , 328p.; 22 cm. Includes Index |
Product Weight | 560 gms. |
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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.