Nationalizing the body the medical market, print and daktari medicine / [electronic resource] :
Projit Bihari Mukharji.
- London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2009.
- xiv, 351 p. : ill.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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.