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Autore |
Mukharji Projit Bihari |
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Titolo |
Nationalizing the body : the medical market, print, and daktari medicine / / Projit Bihari Mukharji [[electronic resource]] |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London : , : Anthem Press, , 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-37738-1 |
9786613377388 |
1-84331-323-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv, 351 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Anthem South Asian Studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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Nationalizing the Body 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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