V. Sujatha

V. Sujatha is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She specializes in the fields of sociology of knowledge and sociology of health and medicine. Her research focuses on the dynamic interface between knowledge, social structure and institutions. Her books, ‘Health by the people’ (2003), ‘Medical pluralism in contemporary India’ (Co-editor Leena Abraham; 2012) and ‘Sociology of health and medicine. New Perspectives’ (2014) brought medical pluralism into the theoretical ambit of sociology. Sujatha’s approach seeks to go beyond national boundaries, reverse the gaze in Eurocentric discourses and offer a cross cultural perspective on phenomena. Her work on globalisation led to two publications - an edited volume, ‘Global capital and social difference’ (2020) and, to a special journal issue of Society and Culture in South Asia on ‘Globalisation of South Asian Medicines. Knowledge, structure and sustainability,’ with an exclusive research paper on European practitioners of Ayurveda based on her fieldwork in four European countries. Her research on women in science offered comparative international conceptualisation that is multipolar in approach. Apart from research articles in refereed journals in English, she has written articles in Tamil language for intellectual journals.  She has four books and two book length reports on neoliberalism and nutritional status in South Africa and India (2018) and on social inequality and access to medicine in rural Madhya Pradesh (2021) and research papers on science and society interactions during COVID 19 linking conceptual studies with policy initiatives.