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Mukharji, Projit Bihari.

Nationalizing the body : the medical market, print and daktari medicine / Projit Bihari Mukharji. - London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2009. - xiv, 351 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Anthem South Asian studies .

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

ISBN: 9781843313151 1843313154 9781843313236 (ebook) 1843313235 (ebook)

LCCN: 2009002122

Subjects--Topical Terms:
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.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
South Asia--Colonization.
South Asia--Social conditions.

LC Class. No.: GN635.S57 / M85 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 615.8/8