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Description

1. xiv, 351 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. Anthem South Asian studies

Uniform title

1. Anthem South Asian studies.

Subject

1. Health Services, Indigenous > Asia, Western
2. Health Services, Indigenous > India
3. Medicine, Traditional > history > Asia, Western
4. Medicine, Traditional > history > India
5. Health Policy > history > Asia, Western
6. Health Policy > history > India
7. History, 19th Century > Asia, Western
8. History, 19th Century > India
9. History, 20th Century > Asia, Western
10. History, 20th Century > India
11. Physicians > history > Asia, Western
12. Physicians > history > India
13. Traditional medicine > South Asia
14. Healers > South Asia
15. Indigenous physicians > South Asia
16. Human body > Social aspects > South Asia
17. Bengali (South Asian people) > Medicine
18. Bengali (South Asian people) > Health and hygiene
19. Bengali literature > South Asia
20. Medical literature > South Asia
21. Public health > South Asia
22. Medical policy > South Asia
23. South Asia > Colonization
24. South Asia > Social conditions

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. JFE 09-5721

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-335) and index.

Author

1. Mukharji, Projit Bihari.

Title

1. Nationalizing the body : the medical market, print, and daktari medicine / Projit Bihari Mukharji.

Imprint

1. London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2009.

Series

1. Anthem South Asian studies
2. Anthem South Asian studies.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-335) and index.

LCCN

1. 2009002122

ISBN

1. 9781843313151 (hbk : alk. paper)
2. 1843313154 (hbk : alk. paper)
3. 9781843313236 (ebk)
4. 1843313235 (ebk)

Research call number

1. JFE 09-5721