Nationalizing the Body

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Nationalizing the Body is written by Projit Bihari Mukharji and published by Anthem Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0857289357 (ISBN 10) and 9780857289353 (ISBN 13).

This book seeks to move emphasis away from the over-riding importance given to the state in existing studies of ‘western’ medicine in India, and locates medical practice within its cultural, social and professional milieus. Based on Bengali doctors writings this book examines how various medical problems, challenges and debates were understood and interpreted within overlapping contexts of social identities and politics on the one hand, and their function within a largely unregulated medical market on the other.