Nationalizing the body [electronic resource] : the medical market, print and daktari medicine / Projit Bihari Mukharji.
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TextPublication details: London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2009.Description: xiv, 351 p. : illSubject(s): - 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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- GN635.S57 M85 2009eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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