Includes bibliographical references (pages 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 : diagnosing the rhizoid pathologies of weakness -- Conclusion.
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Bengali (South Asian people)-- Health and hygiene.