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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mukharji, Projit Bihari
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2009.
Series:	Anthem South Asian studies.
Subjects:	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.

Table of 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.