Nationalizing the body : the medical market, print, and daktari medicine / Projit Bihari Mukharji.

London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2009.

xiv, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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

Healers in context : forgotten pioneers -- Daktari prints : the world of bengali printing and the multiple inscriptions of daktari medicine -- Contagious nationalism : contagion and the actualization of the nation -- Political plague : diagnosing a neo-Hindu modernity -- Endemic commerce : cholera and the medical market -- Dhatu dourbalya : the rhizoid pathologies of weakness -- Conclusion.