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

Publication Data

• Title Nationalizing the body : the medical market, print and daktari medicine
• Author Projit Bihari Mukharji
• Publisher Anthem
• Publication date 2009
• Publication location London
• Language English

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.

Topics

• 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
• South Asia

Nationalizing the body : the medical market, print and daktari medicine by Projit Bihari Mukharji. ISBN 9781843313236. Published by Anthem in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.