Nationalizing the Body : The Medical Market, Print and Daktari Medicine.
Mukharji, Projit Bihari.
Nationalizing the Body : The Medical Market, Print and Daktari Medicine. - 1st ed. - La Vergne : Anthem Press, 2011. ©2011. - 1 online resource (368 pages) - Key Issues in Modern Sociology Series ; v.1 .
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Front Matter -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Main Body -- Introduction -- Chapter I. Healers in Context: Forgotten Pioneers -- Chapter II. Daktari Prints: The World of Bengali Printing and the Multiple Inscriptions of Daktari Medicine -- Chapter III. Contagious Nationalism: Contagion and the Actualization of the Nation -- Chapter IV. Political Plague: Diagnosing A Neo-Hindu Modernity -- Chapter V. Endemic Commerce: Cholera and the Medical Market -- Chapter VI. Dhatu Dourbalya: Diagnosing the Rhizoid Pathologies of Weakness -- Conclusion -- End Matter -- Notes -- Notes: Introduction -- Notes: Chapter I -- Notes: Chapter II -- Notes: Chapter III -- Notes: Chapter IV -- Notes: Chapter V -- Notes: Chapter VI -- Notes: Conclusion -- Notes:Bibliography -- Bibliography -- Index.
'Nationalizing the Body' examines the different meanings of 'modern medicine' that were employed in colonial South Asia, and explores the different discourses that were constructed around 'modernity'.
9780857289353
South Asia--Colonization.
Fernzugriff
Nationalizing the Body : The Medical Market, Print and Daktari Medicine. - 1st ed. - La Vergne : Anthem Press, 2011. ©2011. - 1 online resource (368 pages) - Key Issues in Modern Sociology Series ; v.1 .
E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich
Front Matter -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Main Body -- Introduction -- Chapter I. Healers in Context: Forgotten Pioneers -- Chapter II. Daktari Prints: The World of Bengali Printing and the Multiple Inscriptions of Daktari Medicine -- Chapter III. Contagious Nationalism: Contagion and the Actualization of the Nation -- Chapter IV. Political Plague: Diagnosing A Neo-Hindu Modernity -- Chapter V. Endemic Commerce: Cholera and the Medical Market -- Chapter VI. Dhatu Dourbalya: Diagnosing the Rhizoid Pathologies of Weakness -- Conclusion -- End Matter -- Notes -- Notes: Introduction -- Notes: Chapter I -- Notes: Chapter II -- Notes: Chapter III -- Notes: Chapter IV -- Notes: Chapter V -- Notes: Chapter VI -- Notes: Conclusion -- Notes:Bibliography -- Bibliography -- Index.
'Nationalizing the Body' examines the different meanings of 'modern medicine' that were employed in colonial South Asia, and explores the different discourses that were constructed around 'modernity'.
9780857289353
South Asia--Colonization.
Fernzugriff