Projit Bihari Mukharji

Nationalizing the Body (eBook, PDF)

The Medical Market, Print and Daktari Medicine

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Produktbeschreibung

'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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857289353
• Artikelnr.: 44472208

Autorenporträt

Projit Bihari Mukharji

Inhaltsangabe

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