Nationalizing the body : the medical market, print and daktari medicine / Projit Bihari Mukharji.
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TextSeries: Anthem South Asian studiesPublication details: London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2012.Description: xiv, 351 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9781843313151
- 1843313154
- 9781843313236 (ebook)
- 1843313235 (ebook)
- 9789380601502 (pbk.)
- Traditional medicine -- South Asia
- Healers -- South Asia
- Indigenous physicians -- South Asia
- Human body -- Social aspects -- South Asia
- Bengali (South Asian people) -- Medicine
- Bengali (South Asian people) -- Health and hygiene
- Bengali literature -- South Asia
- Medical literature -- South Asia
- Public health -- South Asia
- Medical policy -- South Asia
- South Asia -- Colonization
- South Asia -- Social conditions
- 615.88 MUK 22
- GN635.S57 M85 2009
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-335) and index.
Healers in context: forgotten pioneers -- Daktari prints: the world of bengali printing and the multiple inscriptions of daktari medicine -- Contagious nationalism: contagion and the actualization of the nation -- Political plague: diagnosing a neo-Hindu modernity -- Endemic commerce: cholera and the medical market -- Dhatu dourbalya: the rhizoid pathologies of weakness -- Conclusion.
This book examines the different meanings of 'modern medicine' that were employed in colonial South Asia, and explores the different discourses that were constructed around 'modernity'.
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