TY - GEN AU - Hardiman, David AU - Mukharji, Projit Bihari TI - Medical marginality in South Asia: situating subaltern therapeutics SN - 9780415502412 U1 - 615.50954 PY - 2012/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Complementary Therapies - India KW - Complementary Therapies - History - India KW - Health Services Accessibility - History - India KW - Medicine, Traditional - India KW - Socioeconomic Factors - India N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Examining the world of popular healing in South Asia, this book looks at the way that it is marginalised by the state and medical establishment while at the same time being very important in the everyday lives of the poor. It describes and analyses a world of Hsubaltern therapeuticsH that both interacts with and resists state-sanctioned and elite forms of medical practice. The relationship is seen as both a historical as well as ongoing one.(http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415502412/) ER -