Nationalizing the body the medical market, print, and daktari medicine /: the medical market, print, and daktari medicine. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Projit Bihari Mukharji.
• Other Names: Mukharji, Projit Bihari
• 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.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Anthem Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 351 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 615.8/8; MEDICAL / History; PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychotherapy -- General; 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; Health Services, Indigenous; Medicine, Traditional -- history; Health Policy -- history; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Physicians -- history; Kolonialismus; Medizin; Wissenschaftstransfer; Schulmedizin; Volksmedizin; Akkulturation; South Asia -- Colonization; South Asia -- Social conditions; Asia, Western; India; Südasien; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781843313236; 1843313235
• Related ISBNs: 1283377381; 9781283377386; 9781843313151; 1843313154
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-335) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.