| Nationalizing the Body: The Medical Market, Print and Daktari Medicine Contributor(s): Mukharji, Projit Bihari (Author) |
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ISBN: 1843313154 ISBN-13: 9781843313151 Publisher: Anthem Press OUR PRICE: $109.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - India & South Asia - Psychology | Psychotherapy - General |
| Dewey: 615.88 |
| LCCN: 2009002122 |
| Series: Anthem South Asian Studies (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.55 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |