Nationalizing the body the medical market, print and daktari medicine /

Nationalizing the body the medical market, print and daktari medicine /

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Main Author: Mukharji, Projit Bihari
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2009.
Subjects:
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.
Electronic books.
Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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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