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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459772703321

Autore

Mukharji Projit Bihari

Titolo

Nationalizing the body : the medical market, print, and daktari medicine / / Projit Bihari Mukharji [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2009

ISBN

1-283-37738-1

9786613377388

1-84331-323-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 351 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Anthem South Asian Studies

Disciplina

615.8/8

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

‘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’.