Nationalizing the body : the medical market, print, and daktari medicine /

"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."

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mukharji, Projit Bihari (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2009.
Colección:Anthem South Asian studies.
Temas:
Geschichte 1700-2000.
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
Guérisseurs > Asie méridionale.
Médecins autochtones > Asie méridionale.
Corps humain > Aspect social > Asie méridionale.
Bengali (Peuple d'Asie méridionale) > Médecine.
Bengali (Peuple d'Asie méridionale) > Santé et hygiène.
Littérature bengali > Asie méridionale.
Médecine > Documentation > Asie méridionale.
Santé publique > Asie méridionale.
Politique sanitaire > Asie méridionale.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychotherapy > General.
MEDICAL > History.
Bengali literature.
Colonization.
Healers.
Human body > Social aspects.
Indigenous physicians.
Medical literature.
Medical policy.
Public health.
Social conditions.
Traditional medicine.
Kolonialismus
Medizin
Schulmedizin
Volksmedizin
Akkulturation
Wissenschaftstransfer
South Asia > Colonization.
South Asia > Social conditions.
Asia, Western
India
South Asia.
Südasien
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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