Nationalizing the body [electronic resource] : the medical market, print and daktari medicine / Projit Bihari Mukharji.
By: Mukharji, Projit Bihari.
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BookPublisher: London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2009Description: xiv, 351 p. : ill.Subject(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 conditionsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 615.8/8 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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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.
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