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The Dai and the Indigenous: Notes on the Appearance and Disappearance of a Figure in the Therapeutics of a Nation

by Asha Achuthan
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781032859385
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 278
  • Original Price: GBP 42.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1
  • Item Weight: 409 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Pregnancy & Childbirth

A study of the conflict between western and indigenous systems and practices of medicine, this book explores the shifting meanings of indigenous medicine within the therapeutic language that emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in India, with reference to the exclusion of the indigenous dai or midwife.

Asha Achuthan is Assistant Professor at the Advanced Centre for Women's Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay, India.

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