Harish Naraindas is professor of sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and honorary professor at the Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University. He was adjunct faculty at the University of Iowa (2004-19); DAAD visiting professor at the department of anthropology, University of Heidelberg (2017); joint-appointments professor of the Cluster of Excellence, University of Heidelberg (2008-12); and visiting professor at the department of sociology, University of Freiburg (2009). He works on the history and sociology of science and medicine and has published on a range of topics, including an epistemological history of tropical medicine, a comparative history of smallpox from the 18^th to the 20^th century, on the creolisation of contemporary Ayurveda, on spa medicine in Germany, on pregnancy and childbirth within the context of competing medical epistemes, a critique of global mental health through a hospital ethnography of German psychosomatic medicine, and on the sacramental nature of anthropological explanations of the non-human.  He is currently working on Ayur-Genomics and P4 medicine; a multi-sited study of perinatal loss and bereavement in the Anglo-European world; and on a general theory of medicine and alternative medicine worldwide, that at once extends and interrogates the anthropological holy trinity of magic, religion and science. Among his publications are a co-edited special issue of Anthropology and Medicine called ‘The fragile medical: the slippery terrain between medicine, anthropology and societies’ (2017), and two co-edited books: Healing holidays: itinerant patients, therapeutic locales and the quest for health (London: Routledge, 2015), and Asymmetrical conversations: contestations, circumventions and the blurring of therapeutic boundaries (New York: Berghahn, 2014).