V. Sujatha

V.Sujatha specialises in the fields of sociology of knowledge, science and technology studies and, health, culture and medicine.  Her report on traditional leather artisans highlighted the trajectory of communities that practised vegetable based leather tanning and her book, ‘Health by the people’ (2003) analysed the significance of uncodified medical knowledge in Indian medical traditions. In the book, ‘Sociology of health and medicine. New perspectives’ (2014) she has sought to bring medical pluralism into the theoretical ambit of sociology of medicine.  Her subsequent research on liberalisation, food and nutritional science engaged with health transitions in India and South Africa.   More recently, the special journal issue that she has edited, ‘Globalisation of South Asian medicine:  Knowledge, power, structure and sustainability,’ examines global flows of knowledge and medicines based on her fieldwork in Europe. Her latest edited volume titled, ‘Global capital and social difference’ (Routledge 2020) brings together an international collection of articles that propose alternative perspectives in the theorisation of globalisation.