Of Cures and Curses
Toward a Critique of Curative Reason
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18968583 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bharat Jayram Venkat (0000-0002-5246-9586, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 277-282 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0899-2363 • E-ISSN: 1527-8018 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/08992363-4310918 |
| OpenAlex | W2809581643 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 15 |
Research Article| May 01 2018 Of Cures and Curses: Toward a Critique of Curative Reason Bharat Jayram Venkat Bharat Jayram Venkat Bharat Jayram Venkat is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon. His recent publications include “Scenes of Commitment” (Cultural Anthropology, February 2017) and “Cures” (Public Culture, September 2016). He is currently completing a book titled “India after Antibiotics: Tuberculosis at the Limits of Cure.” Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 277–282. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4310918 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Bharat Jayram Venkat; Of Cures and Curses: Toward a Critique of Curative Reason. Public Culture 1 May 2018; 30 (2): 277–282. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4310918 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsPublic Culture Search Advanced Search In an earlier essay that appeared in Public Culture, Bharat Jayram Venkat asked what it might mean to think of cure as an ending lacking finality. Here, in response to Paul H. Mason et al., he briefly expands on his thoughts from that essay. Drawing on his research on tuberculosis in India, he identifies the consequences of a widely shared investment in cure’s finality—what he calls, after Mircea Eliade, a vision of “radical cure.” Such an investment threatens to foreclose our recognition of the limits of cure, as well as curtail our willingness to conceive of other possibilities of cure, ones in which we are left without tidy endings. The task, then, of a critique of curative reason is to clarify these limits, precisely so that we are able to imagine cure otherwise. antibiotics, bacteriology, cure, India, tuberculosis Copyright 2018 Duke University Press2018 Issue Section: “Cures”: An Exchange You do not currently have access to this content
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| Citations per year | 1.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |