Prof. Harish Naraindas
Position
- Joint-Appointments Professor at the Cluster "Asia and Europe"
- Associate Professor of Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
Contact information
Email: naraindas@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de
About Harish Naraindas
Harish Naraindas is Associate Professor at the School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. His research interests are in the sociology of science and medicine and has spanned a number of objects of enquiry: the emergence of tropical medicine as a discipline; the history of smallpox vaccination; the study of alternative sciences such as Ayurveda and Naturopathy; and a cross-cultural study of childbirth. He is also adjunct faculty at the University of Iowa and is currently visiting professor at the Department of Ethnology, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University.