'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.
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