Mukharji, Projit Bihari (Author)
Anthem Press
Physical Details: xiv + 351 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English
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
...MoreReview Joseph S. Alter (2014) Review of "Nationalizing the Body: The Medical Market, Print, and Daktari Medicine". Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity (pp. 273-276).
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