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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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Pubblicazione: | London : , : Anthem Press, , 2009 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiv, 351 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina: | 615.8/8 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto geografico: | South Asia Colonization |
South Asia Social conditions | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Nationalizing the body ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-283-37738-1 |
9786613377388 | |
1-84331-323-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910459772703321 |
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