...Paul H. Mason; Greg Fox; Jennifer Ho; Chris Degeling In the essay “Cures” ( Public Culture , September 2016), Bharat Venkat examines how biomedical scientists, since the time of Robert Koch (1843–1910), have contested what counts as trustworthy evidence of a cure for tuberculosis. Widespread...

...Bharat Jayram Venkat In an earlier essay that appeared in Public Culture , Bharat Jayram Venkat asked what it might mean to think of cure as an ending lacking finality. Here, in response to Paul H. Mason et al., he briefly expands on his thoughts from that essay. Drawing on his research...

...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...

... and economy as global technologies and Gandhi's travels with them. At the same time, addiction named Gandhi's condemnation of modern civilization and its slavish relation to technology and futurity. This would be counteracted not with an easy cure but by recasting law and economy as tools and habits of self...

... models intersect and overlap. Take, for instance, Jerry Lewis and his Labor Day telethon. He raises money by playing to pity and promising to find a cure. This money does not fund wheelchairs, ramps, or lift bars, nor lawyers...

... of cancer drug experiments do not prolong survival. While diminishing this fact may well underwrite a patient’s search for a miracle cure, the question and answer rely on a serious misrecogni- tion and misrepresentation of the temporal scope...

... are reengineered and retheorized in local contexts. Bharat Jayram Venkat also reveals the interplay of knowledge and place by exploring the history of how scientists in Germany, Britain, and India evaluated evidence of a “cure” for tuberculosis and how experiences from Berlin to Madras allowed us to think...

... the material of fiction, and Meddeb is more than exemplary in this regard. Narrating the coming into being of the writing je, his texts abruptly shift from the thin layer of narrative to discuss the merits of the talking cure...

... the “coincidence” that a Stanford University research team’s recent discovery of a pharmaceutical “cure” for oniomania was funded by a pharmaceutical company.1 Compulsive shoppers, it seems, will be encouraged to make one more purchase: a daily pill to make it all better. Market- ing a cure for a new...

... asked my dad a lot of questions. It scared me for a little bit. I wony about toxic waste places and stuff like that, you know? But I think eventually, science is going to find a cure for it. Science has always found a cure for everything else. They’re going to find a cure for this. I...

... was with the AFM (Association Française contre les Myopathies), which made a very heavy bet that the dystrophies had a genetic cause, which they seemed to (and eventually did), and that that would be identified before you could arrive at a cure. That seemed to me an ethical use of science, but the truth claims...

... in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries (Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1995), 170. 25. Henry More, Enthusiasmus Triumphatus; or, A Brief Discourse of the Nature, Causes, Kinds, and Cure of Enthusiasm (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1966), 1...

... got the better of their hope for a cure. Moving in an economy where limited treatment is available favors the concealment and the compart- mentalization of networks. Within the framework of these secret therapeutic trials, sufferers...

...) insists, accordingly, on the need for an ethics wholly severed from the chains of Zeugganze: “It is better that bodies remain diseased than that they are cured through the instrumentality of the diabolical vivisection that is practiced...

... between Paul H. Mason and his colleagues and Bharat Jayram Venkat. Venkat recently published an essay in these pages on “cures” (and the history of tuberculosis), to which Mason et al. seek to make some historical amendments. While comments and replies are more common in scientific journals, I thought...

... a diverse microbiome into a human body suffering from certain colon-related diseases can either cure them or alleviate them of many symptoms. Current medical treatments include fecal microbiota transplantation and helminthic therapies, while public health initiatives have focused on nutritional...

... be represented with a repertoire of photographic repre- sentations. But Freud (to tell a familiar story) introduced the talking cure, and madness went underground—into the unconscious, into language. In truth, men- tal illness can...

... be a silver bullet that cures AD because this condition is a multiform syndrome, and the initial cause or causes of so-called late-onset AD are not understood, despite endless research on this matter, much of it today involving projects to detect the earliest signs of presymptomatic AD. ER...

...: Cambridge University Press. Tinker, Hugh. 1979 . The ordeal of love: C. F. Andrews and India . New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Tolstoy, Lev. 1911 . Leo Tolstoy's letter to a Hindoo, or The subjection of India, its cause and cure . Phoenix, Natal, South Africa: International Printing Press...

... of insulin led to a rethinking of the nature of diabetes. At first, medical researchers believed that diabetes was a function of a lack of insulin, so that insulin therapy could cure the condition.10 Dietary therapies involving a strict...