Aug 17 2022 to Aug 17 2022 6:30 p.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Anthropologist of medicine Sarah Pinto focuses on the psychic and social experience of medical care given to women in the context of rural medicine; whether it is delivered by ersatz doctors, women health workers, village big men or NGOs. Pinto has been attentive to how the terms set by development reinforce existing patriarchal, class and most of all, caste hierarchies. Pinto has also studied the institutionalization of women in the highly privatized sector of psychiatric care and its intersection with customary laws and the position of abandoned women in kin networks. In 2019, Pinto published The Doctor and Mrs. A, which shifted her field of enquiry to a historic psychoanalytic encounter between Dr. Dev Satya Nand and his friend and co-enquirer, the young Mrs. A. Looking at the history of gender in late colonialism, the book tells us that psychiatry’s history of innovation and creative thinking about the self is global, and that modern personal ethics could develop from the Puranas myths or the observation of nationalist politics. In this conversation, art historian Annapurna Garimella discusses with Sarah Pinto, her work in medical anthropology and how Dr. Dev Satya Nand and Mrs. A have affected her in the way she wants to work and in what she chooses to learn and write from her research. Following the discussion there will be a Q&A session.