Author: Djurfeldt, Goran & Lindberg, Staffan
Title: Pills Against Poverty. A Study of the Introduction of Western Medicine in a Tamil Village
Description: Lund / London, Studentlitteratur / Curzon, (1975). orig. wrappers. 22x15cm, 232 pages. Series: Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies, Monograph Series No. 23. Inscribed by author on title.. Textual photos,graphs,tables. Some light pencil underlining to first 20 pp, minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: Theoretical Perspectives: Disease as a Social Phenomenon; Individual Behaviour & System Survival...Thaiyur Panchayat - A Short Presentation; The Disease Panorama; Poverty & Disease; Allopathic Medicine;Folk Medical Knowledge & Practitioners of Indigenous Medicine: A Paradigmatic Case: Krishna's Medical Knowledge; Common Sense; Medical- technical Knowledge; Religious Theory & Magico-Religious Practice; Reasons for the Survival of Indigenous Medicine; Family Planning; Conclusion: Where Medical Technology Fails.

Keywords: Indian Ethnology, Ethnomedicine, Social Anthropology, Rural sociology, Allopathic medicine, Development, Tamil Nadu, India, South Asia