Bharat Jayram Venkat

Assistant Professor in History, UCLA Institute for Society & Genetics

Bharat Jayram Venkat at the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics and the Department of History, and director of the UCLA Heat Lab. He is the author of At the Limits of Cure (Duke University Press, 2021). He lives in Los Angeles.

Written by Bharat Jayram Venkat

Photo of an X-ray on a lightbox showing a human chest in a dark room with a blank lightbox beside it.

Studying tuberculosis in India, I saw the problem with cures

The ideal cure, a return to before the disorder or disease, can happen. But often that’s just not how bodies and life work

by Bharat Jayram Venkat