Nationalizing the body, the medical market, print, and daktari medicine, Projit Bihari Mukharji
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Subject
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- Human body + Social aspects -- South Asia
- Public health -- South Asia
- Bengali literature -- South Asia
- Healers -- South Asia
- Traditional medicine -- South Asia
- Bengali (South Asian people) + Health and hygiene
- South Asia -- Social conditions
- Indigenous physicians -- South Asia
- Medical literature -- South Asia
- Bengali (South Asian people) + Medicine
- South Asia -- Colonization
- Medical policy -- South Asia
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Nationalizing the body, the medical market, print, and daktari medicine, Projit Bihari Mukharji
Language
eng
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Nationalizing the body
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
741613186
Responsibility statement
Projit Bihari Mukharji
Series statement
Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
Sub title
the medical market, print, and daktari medicine
Summary
<U+0145>Nationalizing the Body<U+0146> examines the different meanings of <U+0145>modern medicine<U+0146> that were employed in colonial South Asia, and explores the different discourses that were constructed around <U+0145>modernity<U+0146>.--, Provided by publisher
Table of contents
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
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