{"product_id":"local-health-traditions-plurality-and-marginality-in-south-asia-9789352876617","title":"Local Health Traditions: Plurality and Marginality in South Asia","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Arima Mishra (Ed.)\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLocal Health Traditions \u003c\/em\u003eextends 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcademic 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe contributors critically engage with \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eissues of legitimacy and recognition, \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003edocumentation of traditional medical knowledge, and \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003egender in healing.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45616510206103,"sku":"9789352876617","price":1337.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789352876617.webp?v=1769294984","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/local-health-traditions-plurality-and-marginality-in-south-asia-9789352876617","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}