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Medical Marginality in South Asia preserve capital particular places adopt particular productionExamining the world of popular healing in South Asia, this book looks at the way that it is marginalised by the state and medical establishment while at the same time being very important in the everyday lives of the poor. It describes and analyses a world of subaltern therapeutics that both interacts with and resists state sanctioned and elite forms of medical practice. The relationship is seen as both a historical as well as ongoing one. Focusing on