Bharat Jayram Venkat is currently an assistant professor in the department of anthropology at the University of Oregon; starting in July 2019, he will be an assistant professor at UCLA’s Institute for Society and Genetics. His recent publications include “Of Cures and Curses: Toward a Critique of Curative Reason” (Public Culture, 2018) and “Scenes of Commitment” (Cultural Anthropology, 2017). His forthcoming book, “At the Limits of Cure,” offers an anthropological history of the idea of cure through a study of tuberculosis in India.
Bharat Jayram Venkat
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Marriage and Other Shams
In the early 1980s, an Indian guru homesteaded a tract of ranchland in rural Oregon, building a utopia equipped to withstand both HIV and American hypocrisy. Armed with free love and even freer enterprise (and guns), the Rajneeshees and their ostensible leader, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (nowadays more popularly known as Osho), delivered equal measures of […]
World without Antibiotics
Sepsis: a systemic response to infection. The body gone wild. A reaction disproportionate to its cause, one that refuses to respect the division between …
World without Antibiotics
Sepsis: a systemic response to infection. The body gone wild. A reaction disproportionate to its cause, one that refuses to respect the division between hearts and limbs. Diagnosing sepsis requires a sense of proper proportions. And in Surgeon X, a comic series …
