Minding the Gap: Visions of Science, Civilization and the Politics of Cancer in Underdeveloped Nations (India and South Africa, 1940-50s)

<strong>Centre for Historical Studies School of Social Sciences</strong> a Lecture on <strong>"Minding the Gap: Visions of Science, Civilization and the Politics of Cancer in Underdeveloped Nations (India and South Africa, 1940-50s)"</strong> <strong>Kavita Sivaramkrishnan,</strong> Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University <strong>19th February 2016</strong> Kavita Sivaramakrishnan is Assistant Professor, Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. She has been trained in modern Indian history, political theory and in population health at St Stephens College, Delhi University, at Trinity College, Cambridge University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and at the Center for Population and Development Studies at Harvard University. She has published a book on Ayurvedic medicine and its revival in late colonial Punjab in India titled, Old Potions, New Bottles (2006), and is due to publish a monograph, Coming of Age: The Global Science and Politics of Aging (2017). Her current interests are focused on histories of medicine, science and socialism in post-colonial India (1950-70s), on comparative histories of chronic disease, in particular cancer and heart disease research in South Asia and Africa and on the making and mapping of the "brain" and histories of cognition in India.