At the Limits of Cure (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)

Is health global? Is medicine (and the cures it offers) universal? And what inequalities and minor histories are concealed by the notion of the universal? This is a beautifully-written critique that takes Indian curative imaginations as its focus in order to unravel taken-for-granted assumptions about medicine, science, progress, and embodiment. Medicine (and it’s quite loose grip on the curative) looks different after reading this book.

Bharat Venkat’s beautiful and incisive writing makes At the Limits of Cure a thought-provoking read.