V. Sujatha is a Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS), School of Social Sciences (SSS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). She specialises in the fields of sociology of knowledge, science and technology studies and health, culture and medicine. 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.

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