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Subject(s)

• Traditional medicine—South Asia [Browse]
• Healers—South Asia [Browse]
• Indigenous physicians—South Asia [Browse]
• Human body—Social aspects—South Asia [Browse]
• Bengali (South Asian people)—Medicine [Browse]
• Bengali (South Asian people)—Health and hygiene [Browse]
• Bengali literature—South Asia [Browse]
• Medical literature—South Asia [Browse]
• Public health—South Asia [Browse]
• Medical policy—South Asia [Browse]
• South Asia—Colonization [Browse]
• South Asia—Social conditions [Browse]

Series

Anthem South Asian studies [More in this series]

Summary note

"Nationalizing the Body' examines the different meanings of 'modern medicine' that were employed in colonial South Asia, and explores the different discourses that were constructed around 'modernity."

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-335) and index.

Source of description

Print version record.

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

• 9781843313236 ((electronic bk.))
• 1843313235 ((electronic bk.))

OCLC

741613186

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