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Nationalizing the Body: The Medical Market, Print and Daktari Medicine

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'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.

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  • Anthem Press Brand
  • Jan 1, 2011 Pub Date:
  • 9780857289957 ISBN-13:
  • 0857289950 ISBN-10:
  • English Language
  • 9 in * 1.02 in * 6.02 in Dimensions:
  • 1 lb Weight: