Projit Bihari Mukharji 
Nationalizing the Body [PDF ebook] 
The Medical Market, Print and Daktari Medicine

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‘Nationalizing the Body’ revisits the history of ‘western’ medicine in colonial South Asia through the lives, writings and practice of the numerous Bengali ‘daktars’ who adopted and practised it. Refusing to see ‘western’ medicine as an alienated appendage of the colonial state, this book explores how ‘western’ medicine was vernacularised. It argues that a burgeoning medical market and a medical publishing industry together gave ‘daktari’ medicine a social identity which did not solely derive from its association with the state. Accessing many of the best-known ideas and episodes of colonial South Asian medical history, it seeks to understand how ‘daktari’ medicine re-positioned the colonized bodies as nationalized bodies.

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1. Introduction: A Vernacular Modernity; 2. Healers in Context: Forgotten Pioneers; 3. Healing Print: Medicine and the World of Print; 4. Contagious Modernity: Domesticating an Idea; 5. The Plague in the Vernacular: A Hindu Nationalist Diagnosis; 6. Marketing Cholera: The Texts and Contexts of Bengali Responses to Cholera; 7. Dhatu Dourbolyo: Diagnosing the Rhizoid Pathologies of Racial Weakness; 8. Conclusion

Circa l’autore

Projit Bihari Mukharji is a Wellcome Fellow at Oxford Brookes University.

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato PDF ● Pagine 368 ● ISBN 9781843313236 ● Dimensione 8.3 MB ● Casa editrice NBN International – Anthem Press ● Paese GB ● Pubblicato 2009 ● Edizione 1 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 4906117 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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