Nationalizing the Body: The Medical Market, Print and Daktari Medicine (Anthem South Asian Studies) [Hardcover]

Projit Bihari Mukharji (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2009 | ISBN-10: 1843313154 | ISBN-13: 978-1843313151 | Edition: First

This book seeks to move emphasis away from the over-riding importance given to the state in existing studies of ‘western’ medicine in India, and locates medical practice within its cultural, social and professional milieus. Based on Bengali doctors writings this book examines how various medical problems, challenges and debates were understood and interpreted within overlapping contexts of social identities and politics on the one hand, and their function within a largely unregulated medical market on the other.

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'Projit Mukharji presents a meticulously researched construction of the identity of ‘Daktari’ physicians, or Indian practitioners of Western medicine, through the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in British Colonial Bengal. […] A significant and definitive contribution to this field.' —Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Harvard University, in ‘Social History of Medicine’

Book Description

Examines the different meanings of ‘modern medicine’ that were employed in colonial South Asia, and explores the different discourses that were constructed around ‘modernity’.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 368 pages
• Publisher: Anthem Press; First edition (February 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1843313154
• ISBN-13: 978-1843313151
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,497,118 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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