Author's Name:	Vineet Kumar Verma
Subject Area:	Social Science and Humanities
Subject	Other
Section	Research Paper

Health, Disease, Medicine, Ethno-medicine, Epidemiological

Ethnomedicine is the study of ethnography of health and healing behaviour in various societies. It also refers to the study of traditional medical practice. It encompasses methods of diagnosis and treatment; to looks at cultural conceptions of the body, health and illness. It focuses on health behaviour as a way to learn about social values and social relations. The present research will address the problem of how people two different castes (Sonar & Rajput) with distinct efficacy of traditional health care practices; the prevalence of illnesses and the distribution of knowledge about illness attributes; the negotiations and instantiation of illness identities; the power of discourse to produce as well as cure affliction; discourse as moral commentary; linkages between medico-religious institutions, models of self, power and the state inhabiting in tehsil Bhatpar Rani of Deoria district.