...” and “appropriateness” that includes ideas of “solidity,” “authenticity,” “completeness,” “absoluteness,” and even “ripeness.” My thanks to Andy McDowell for raising this point. 7 As a corollary, cure is never simply one’s own. Mason et al. (2018 : 282) argue that, with the rise of antibiotic-based therapy...

...Bharat Jayram Venkat What is a cure and how do we know it? This essay examines the history of tuberculosis research to trace how ideas of cure shifted from Robert Koch’s development of tuberculin in late nineteenth-century Berlin to the earliest randomized studies of the efficacy of antibiotics...

..., fats, and proteins. Industrialized Westerners live in sanitized environments, their livelihoods lack frequent contact with their immediate natural environments, and their overuse of antibiotics significantly reduces the diversity of the gut microbiome. Preindustrialized microbiota are key to curing...

.... Skeptics collectively question if big data can really fulfill its potential, helping us to design and implement better social and economic policies, discover new antibiotics, or halt the next flu pandemic. Proponents of big data, for their part, worry about our computation and human capacity to make any...

... to smash what Johanna Hedva (2016) calls the “current regime of neoliberal, white-supremacist, imperial-capitalist, cishetero-patriarchy,” but who are glad for roads and antibiotics. And following this thought, I might acquiesce that (3) it is not “just” to burn down a metaphorical master’s house without...

... the status of quackery. However, biomedicine has proved by far to be the most efficacious among medical systems in terms of the numbers of people effectively cured of infectious disease. But, as we all know, things are now at a turning point because of the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The global...

... (betadine and antibiotics) seemed to have had no effect. Edenvale was a last try. It was there that she had given birth and discovered her HIV- positive status, but she had never been back. Normally, Dalene would have had to take a minibus...

... infants has esca- lated dramatically thanks to improvements in infant surgery, antibiotics, and life- support technologies. At the same time, the knowledge of what is entailed in car- ing for such children remains absent from mainstream discourse, underscoring...