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

  • Mukharji, Projit Bihari.
Date:
2009
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Publication/Creation

London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2009.

Physical description

xiv, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

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

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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ISBN

  • 9781843313151
  • 1843313154
  • 9781843313236
  • 1843313235