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SUMMARY:Chronic Constitutions: Experts\, Disease Risks and Remaking Indian
  Bodies in Post Colonial India (1940-70s) - Kavita Sivaramakrishnan (Colum
 bia)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260216T160000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260216T173000Z
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DESCRIPTION:This talk is located in a post-colonial setting of urbanizatio
 n and industrial modernization between the 1940-70s in India\, when expert
 s and publics began to remake knowledge regarding the bodies of workers an
 d vulnerable citizens. This talk offers a framing to better understand pos
 t-colonial governmentality and health in Asia\, specifically its symbolism
 \, promise and limits for urban citizens. It argues that thinking about th
 ese modern\, urban and industrial pathologies and diseases was narrowly fo
 cused on precarious metabolisms and unstable behaviors\; and on questions 
 of mental fitness\, bodily stress and adaptability. At the same time this 
 new metabolic thinking and studies led by Indian medical and social expert
 s left out surrounding social risks and stressors. How did understandings 
 of infection\, immunity and risk get interpreted socially and epidemiologi
 cally\, based on the needs of national productivity and morale\, and what 
 does it tell us about how knowledge of infectious and chronic diseases has
  emerged together rather than apart in India's health history and lifecour
 se.\n\n*Dr Kavita Sivaramakrishnan* is Ronald H Lauterstein Associate Prof
 essor at Columbia University. She is Co-Director of the Center for the His
 tory of Public Health at the Mailman School of Public Health. Her research
  focuses on history of medicine and health in modern South Asia\, global h
 ealth history and the relationships between disease outbreaks\, the politi
 cs of medical expertise and care in late colonial and post-colonial South 
 Asia. She is the author of\, _As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic 
 Crisis_ (Harvard University Press\, 2018)\, and _Old Potions\, New Bottles
 :  Recasting Indigenous medicine in colonial Punjab_ (Orient Longman\, 200
 6)\; and has two forthcoming books. A recently completed book manuscript o
 n the politics of cardiology as a new and self-reliant technology of India
 n modernity (co-authored with David Jones\, Harvard University)\; and on t
 he inescapable and pervasive remaking of new and chronic metabolisms in po
 st-colonial India (supported by a grant the National Science Foundation). 
 She is also working on a project on how resilience and coping amongst olde
 r populations has been understood and challenged as a lifecourse\; and on 
 a comparative\, international history of consultants and expertise.\nSpeak
 ers:\nKavita Sivaramakrishnan (Columbia)
LOCATION:Radcliffe Observatory (Room 00.063 (ground floor)\, Schwarzman Ce
 ntre)
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