TY - BOOK AU - Mukharji,Projit Bihari TI - Nationalizing the body: the medical market, print and daktari medicine T2 - Anthem South Asian studies SN - 9781843313151 AV - GN635.S57 M85 2009 U1 - 615.8/8 22 PY - 2009/// CY - London, New York PB - Anthem Press KW - Traditional medicine KW - South Asia KW - Healers KW - Indigenous physicians KW - Human body KW - Social aspects KW - Bengali (South Asian people) KW - Medicine KW - Health and hygiene KW - Bengali literature KW - Medical literature KW - Public health KW - Medical policy KW - Colonization KW - Social conditions N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1010/2009002122-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1010/2009002122-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1010/2009002122-t.html ER -