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| fixed length control field |
02056cam a2200217 i 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9789352876617 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng- |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
615.880954 |
| Item number |
LOC- |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Local health traditions : |
| Sub Title |
plurality and marginality in South Asia / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
edited by Arima Mishra. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication |
Hyderabad : |
| Name of publisher |
Orient BlackSwan, |
| Year of publication |
2019. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
xvi, 328p. |
| Other physical details |
illustrations ; |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Contributed articles. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>Academic scholarship on medical pluralism tends to focus more on ‘systems of medicine’, leaving out local health traditions that fall off the radar of ‘systems, science and state’. Turning the lens upside down, this book places local health traditions at the centre-stage of discussion to extend the debates on medical pluralism.<br/><br/>The contributors critically engage with<br/><br/>issues of legitimacy and recognition,<br/>documentation of traditional medical knowledge, and<br/>gender in healing.<br/>The book also studies the recent developments in policy literature: while the State has begun to address the need to revitalise local health traditions, market trends for natural, traditional remedies and products are now imposing another set of demands on these traditional practices. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
English. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Traditional medicine |
| Geographic subdivision |
India. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Healing |
| Geographic subdivision |
India |
| General subdivision |
Folklore. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Women healers |
| Geographic subdivision |
India. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Mishra, Arima |
| Relator term |
editor. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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| Koha item type |
Books |
