Harish Naraindas
Biographic Data
| ID | 131310 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harish Naraindas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harish |
| FAMILY NAME | Naraindas |
| SIGNATURE | NARAINDAS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Jit, the bohemian professor… A note about my beloved teacher
Is Medical Tourism Transcultural Hypogamy
This article attempts to make a set of interrelated arguments. It claims that the epithet ‘medical tourism’, which is of recent provenance, tacitly subscribes to a particular and narrow understanding of ‘medicine’, namely, the Anglo-American variant of biomedicine. This variant, unlike its Continental European counterpart, does not countenance the spa (Kur, Kuur, Termas, etc.) as ‘medical’ therapy, a therapy that is part of orthodox biomedicine o…
Of sacraments, sacramentals and anthropology: Is Anthropological Explanation Sacramental
This paper suggests that what is usually called a cultural misunderstanding of biomedical disease categories may be construed as a biomedical and anthropological misunderstanding of cultural categories. This is premised on the fact that anthropology often functions as an intimate double and handmaiden of biomedicine, in so far as it refuses to countenance the possibility of theurgic aetiologies in the realm of what is called 'mental illness'. Suc…
The fragile medical: The Slippery Terrain Between Medicine, Anthropology and Societies
This collection of essays is the result of a two-day symposium, State, Society, Stigma: Rethinking Disease in a Global Age, held at La Trobe University Melbourne, Australia, in June 2014. The aim o
Asymmetrical Conversations: Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries
Ideas about health are reinforced by institutions and their corresponding practices, such as donning a patient's gown in a hospital or prostrating before a healing shrine. Even though we are socialized into regarding such ideologies as "natural" and unproblematic, we sometimes seek to bypass, circumvent, or even transcend the dominant ideologies of our cultures as they are manifested in the institutions of health care. The contributors to this vo…
Of relics, body parts and laser beams: The German Heilpraktiker and his Ayurvedic spa
This paper examines the twin German institutions of the Kur (spa), and the 'lay' licensed healing practitioner or Heilpraktiker. Through an ethnography of a Heilpraktiker and his Ayurvedic spa in a small catholic village in Germany, where patients arrive in person or as body parts by post, it examines the poly-therapeutics of the practitioner, who seems to combine in his being a dizzy array of diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities. It argues t…
Healing holidays? Itinerant patients, therapeutic locales and the quest for health: Special Issue for Anthropology & Medicine
This special issue on medical ‘tourism’ draws upon the panel ‘Healing Holidays’ held at the Society for Medical Anthropology's 50th anniversary conference in 2009. The issue brings together anthrop
Of spineless babies and folic acid: Evidence and efficacy in biomedicine and ayurvedic medicine
Preparing for the Pox: A Theory of Smallpox in Bengal and Britain
This essay is to be conceived in two parts. The first part is an exegesis of an eighteenth-century tract on the practice of smallpox inoculation in Bengal written by a Scottish medic. Cited repeatedly in the contemporary history and anthropology of smallpox in India, it has been invariably used to highlight the technique of inoculation in eighteenth-century India. Caught in disciplinary cleaving between anthropology and history, its original impo…
Crisis, charisma and triage: Extirpating the pox
This article is a history of the last stage of the global smallpox eradication programme, christened in India as the National Smallpox Eradication Programme (NSEP). Here I have attempted to show how the Intensive Campaign of the NSEP was forced to abandon its erstwhile language of targets and returns, whose acme was the mass vaccination strategy of the 1960s, and switch instead to a language of crisis and cases. It instituted a new practice where…
Care, welfare, and treason: The advent of vaccination in the 19th century
This paper attempts to reconstruct the debate that marked the advent of vaccination in the 19th century. Having to contend with the ongoing practice of variolation, backed by professional variolators and a presiding deity, advocates of vaccination sought to portray the practice as a form of treason that needed to be outlawed on the ground that it provoked epidemics and hence was a public threat. The paper recasts the encounter by arguing that the…
Poisons, putrescence and the weather: A genealogy of the advent of Tropical Medicine
This paper attempts to problematise the founding of 'Tropical Medicine' in the late 19th century as a classificatory act by posing a question: why was the discipline founded when it was and not earlier? In the process, it offers an alternate genealogy of its advent by arguing for a mid-19th century episteme, in terms of fevers, the constitution of the body, and the weather-in originating fevers and in predisposing the body towards disease-both in…
Of spineless babies and folic acid: Evidence and efficacy in biomedicine and ayurvedic medicine
Poisons, putrescence and the weather: A genealogy of the advent of Tropical Medicine
This paper attempts to problematise the founding of 'Tropical Medicine' in the late 19th century as a classificatory act by posing a question: why was the discipline founded when it was and not earlier? In the process, it offers an alternate genealogy of its advent by arguing for a mid-19th century episteme, in terms of fevers, the constitution of the body, and the weather-in originating fevers and in predisposing the body towards disease-both in…
Healing holidays? Itinerant patients, therapeutic locales and the quest for health: Special Issue for Anthropology & Medicine
This special issue on medical ‘tourism’ draws upon the panel ‘Healing Holidays’ held at the Society for Medical Anthropology's 50th anniversary conference in 2009. The issue brings together anthrop
Care, welfare, and treason: The advent of vaccination in the 19th century
This paper attempts to reconstruct the debate that marked the advent of vaccination in the 19th century. Having to contend with the ongoing practice of variolation, backed by professional variolators and a presiding deity, advocates of vaccination sought to portray the practice as a form of treason that needed to be outlawed on the ground that it provoked epidemics and hence was a public threat. The paper recasts the encounter by arguing that the…
Of relics, body parts and laser beams: The German Heilpraktiker and his Ayurvedic spa
This paper examines the twin German institutions of the Kur (spa), and the 'lay' licensed healing practitioner or Heilpraktiker. Through an ethnography of a Heilpraktiker and his Ayurvedic spa in a small catholic village in Germany, where patients arrive in person or as body parts by post, it examines the poly-therapeutics of the practitioner, who seems to combine in his being a dizzy array of diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities. It argues t…
Preparing for the Pox: A Theory of Smallpox in Bengal and Britain
This essay is to be conceived in two parts. The first part is an exegesis of an eighteenth-century tract on the practice of smallpox inoculation in Bengal written by a Scottish medic. Cited repeatedly in the contemporary history and anthropology of smallpox in India, it has been invariably used to highlight the technique of inoculation in eighteenth-century India. Caught in disciplinary cleaving between anthropology and history, its original impo…
Crisis, charisma and triage: Extirpating the pox
This article is a history of the last stage of the global smallpox eradication programme, christened in India as the National Smallpox Eradication Programme (NSEP). Here I have attempted to show how the Intensive Campaign of the NSEP was forced to abandon its erstwhile language of targets and returns, whose acme was the mass vaccination strategy of the 1960s, and switch instead to a language of crisis and cases. It instituted a new practice where…
Of sacraments, sacramentals and anthropology: Is Anthropological Explanation Sacramental
This paper suggests that what is usually called a cultural misunderstanding of biomedical disease categories may be construed as a biomedical and anthropological misunderstanding of cultural categories. This is premised on the fact that anthropology often functions as an intimate double and handmaiden of biomedicine, in so far as it refuses to countenance the possibility of theurgic aetiologies in the realm of what is called 'mental illness'. Suc…
Poisons, putrescence and the weather: A genealogy of the advent of Tropical Medicine
This paper attempts to problematise the founding of 'Tropical Medicine' in the late 19th century as a classificatory act by posing a question: why was the discipline founded when it was and not earlier? In the process, it offers an alternate genealogy of its advent by arguing for a mid-19th century episteme, in terms of fevers, the constitution of the body, and the weather-in originating fevers and in predisposing the body towards disease-both in…
Care, welfare, and treason: The advent of vaccination in the 19th century
This paper attempts to reconstruct the debate that marked the advent of vaccination in the 19th century. Having to contend with the ongoing practice of variolation, backed by professional variolators and a presiding deity, advocates of vaccination sought to portray the practice as a form of treason that needed to be outlawed on the ground that it provoked epidemics and hence was a public threat. The paper recasts the encounter by arguing that the…
Preparing for the Pox: A Theory of Smallpox in Bengal and Britain
This essay is to be conceived in two parts. The first part is an exegesis of an eighteenth-century tract on the practice of smallpox inoculation in Bengal written by a Scottish medic. Cited repeatedly in the contemporary history and anthropology of smallpox in India, it has been invariably used to highlight the technique of inoculation in eighteenth-century India. Caught in disciplinary cleaving between anthropology and history, its original impo…
Crisis, charisma and triage: Extirpating the pox
This article is a history of the last stage of the global smallpox eradication programme, christened in India as the National Smallpox Eradication Programme (NSEP). Here I have attempted to show how the Intensive Campaign of the NSEP was forced to abandon its erstwhile language of targets and returns, whose acme was the mass vaccination strategy of the 1960s, and switch instead to a language of crisis and cases. It instituted a new practice where…
Of spineless babies and folic acid: Evidence and efficacy in biomedicine and ayurvedic medicine
Of relics, body parts and laser beams: The German Heilpraktiker and his Ayurvedic spa
This paper examines the twin German institutions of the Kur (spa), and the 'lay' licensed healing practitioner or Heilpraktiker. Through an ethnography of a Heilpraktiker and his Ayurvedic spa in a small catholic village in Germany, where patients arrive in person or as body parts by post, it examines the poly-therapeutics of the practitioner, who seems to combine in his being a dizzy array of diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities. It argues t…
Healing holidays? Itinerant patients, therapeutic locales and the quest for health: Special Issue for Anthropology & Medicine
This special issue on medical ‘tourism’ draws upon the panel ‘Healing Holidays’ held at the Society for Medical Anthropology's 50th anniversary conference in 2009. The issue brings together anthrop
Asymmetrical Conversations: Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries
Ideas about health are reinforced by institutions and their corresponding practices, such as donning a patient's gown in a hospital or prostrating before a healing shrine. Even though we are socialized into regarding such ideologies as "natural" and unproblematic, we sometimes seek to bypass, circumvent, or even transcend the dominant ideologies of our cultures as they are manifested in the institutions of health care. The contributors to this vo…
Of sacraments, sacramentals and anthropology: Is Anthropological Explanation Sacramental
This paper suggests that what is usually called a cultural misunderstanding of biomedical disease categories may be construed as a biomedical and anthropological misunderstanding of cultural categories. This is premised on the fact that anthropology often functions as an intimate double and handmaiden of biomedicine, in so far as it refuses to countenance the possibility of theurgic aetiologies in the realm of what is called 'mental illness'. Suc…
The fragile medical: The Slippery Terrain Between Medicine, Anthropology and Societies
This collection of essays is the result of a two-day symposium, State, Society, Stigma: Rethinking Disease in a Global Age, held at La Trobe University Melbourne, Australia, in June 2014. The aim o
Is Medical Tourism Transcultural Hypogamy
This article attempts to make a set of interrelated arguments. It claims that the epithet ‘medical tourism’, which is of recent provenance, tacitly subscribes to a particular and narrow understanding of ‘medicine’, namely, the Anglo-American variant of biomedicine. This variant, unlike its Continental European counterpart, does not countenance the spa (Kur, Kuur, Termas, etc.) as ‘medical’ therapy, a therapy that is part of orthodox biomedicine o…
Jit, the bohemian professor… A note about my beloved teacher
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