Nationalizing the body : the medical market, print, and daktari medicine / / Projit Bihari Mukharji [[electronic resource]]
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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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Anthem South Asian Studies