Kavita Sivaramakrishnan
Associate Professor, Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan is an Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University. She is the author of As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis (2018), on the global politics of aging. She is a public health historian of South Asia with a focus on the politics of health, medicine and science in the global South. Her research has focused on the politics of ‘indigenous’ Ayurvedic medicine and its reconfiguring in a late colonial context in North India (through claims and representations based on language and religion), and social histories of epidemics and the role played by experts and scientific evidence (including the plague and its national and regional politics). She is developing a book project on the history of consumption and disease risks.
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