Projit Bihari Mukharji

Nationalizing the Body

The Medical Market, Print and Daktari Medicine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

‘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’.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 597g
• ISBN-13: 9780857289957
• ISBN-10: 0857289950
• Artikelnr.: 31802138

Autorenporträt

Projit Bihari Mukharji is a Wellcome Fellow at Oxford Brookes University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. 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