CURRENTLY SOLD OUT
About this product
Product Information
'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'.Product Identifiers
PublisherAnthem Press
ISBN-101843313154
ISBN-139781843313151
eBay Product ID (ePID)70950720
Product Key Features
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameNationalizing the Body : the Medical Market, Print and Daktari Medicine
Publication Year2009
SubjectHealing / General, Public Health, Asian / Indic, Sociology / General, General, Asia / India & South Asia, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaBody, Mind & Spirit, Medical, History, Literary Collections, Social Science
AuthorProjit Bihari Mukharji
SeriesKey Issues in Modern Sociology Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Length9in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2009-002122
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsProjit 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', 'This book performs the ambitious and much required task of tracing the distinct vernacular career of imperial medicine in Bengal. [...] Mukharji delves into an enviably exhaustive range of sources. The deeply layered Bengali medical archive has been explored here in unprecedented detail. [...] One can be certain that "Nationalizing the Body" will remain a crucial reference point not just for the histories of medicine in South Asia but colonial medicine more generally.' --Rohan Deb Roy University of Cambridge, 'Canadian Bulletin of Medical History', 'This book performs the ambitious and much required task of tracing the distinct vernacular career of imperial medicine in Bengal. [...] Mukharji delves into an enviably exhaustive range of sources. The deeply layered Bengali medical archive has been explored here in unprecedented detail. [...] One can be certain that "Nationalizing the Body" will remain a crucial reference point not just for the histories of medicine in South Asia but colonial medicine more generally.' -Rohan Deb Roy University of Cambridge, 'Canadian Bulletin of Medical History', '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'
Series Volume Number1
Number of VolumesBK. 1
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal615.8/8
Lc Classification Number2009002122
Table of Content1. Introduction: A Vernacular Modernity; 2. Healers in Context: Forgotten Pioneers; 3. Healing Print: Medicine and the World of Print; 4. Contagious Modernity: Domesticating an Idea; 5. The Plague in the Vernacular: A Hindu Nationalist Diagnosis; 6. Marketing Cholera: The Texts and Contexts of Bengali Responses to Cholera; 7. Dhatu Dourbolyo: Diagnosing the Rhizoid Pathologies of Racial Weakness; 8. Conclusion
