Bharat Venkat | At the Limits of Cure

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Join us for the first Medical Humanities Workshop of the spring quarter when we welcome Bharat Venkat, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and of History at UCLA.


About the Speaker

Dr. Bharat Jayram Venkat is an assistant professor at UCLA’s Institute for Society and Genetics with a joint appointment in the Department of History. He is also affiliated with the UCLA Center for India and South Asia, the Program in Digital Humanities, and the Urban Humanities Initiative. His research focuses broadly on questions related to science and medicine, ethics, race, environment, and design.

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Limits of Cure

His first book, At the Limits of Cure (Duke University Press, 2021), is the winner of the Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences. Through an anthropological history of tuberculosis treatment in India, this book asks about what it means to be cured, and what it means for a cure to come undone. This research was supported by the American Council for Learned Societies, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the American Institute for Indian Studies, and the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation.


About the Series

Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop

Sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center and made possible by support from Linda Randall Meier, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.