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Nationalising the body: the medical market, print and daktari medicine

By: Publication details: 2011 Anthem Press LondonDescription: xiv, 351 pISBN:
  • 9780857289957
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 615.88  M8N2
Summary: Nationalizing the Body’s revisits the history of western medicine in colonial South Asia through the lives, writings and practice of the numerous Bengali dakrati who adopted and practiced 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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Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 33-B / Slot 1739 (2nd Floor, East Wing) Non-fiction General Stacks 615.88 M8N2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 177419

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-335) and index.

Nationalizing the Body’s revisits the history of western medicine in colonial South Asia through the lives, writings and practice of the numerous Bengali dakrati who adopted and practiced 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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