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Nationalizing the Body - (Key Issues in Modern Sociology) by Projit Bihari Mukharji (Paperback)
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Highlights
- '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'.
- About the Author: Projit Bihari Mukharji is a Wellcome Fellow at Oxford Brookes University.
- 368 Pages
- History, Asia
- Series Name: Key Issues in Modern Sociology
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About the Book
'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'.
Book Synopsis
'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'.
Review Quotes
'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'
'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'
About the Author
Projit Bihari Mukharji is a Wellcome Fellow at Oxford Brookes University.