Acknowledgements
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Chapter 1
Introduction: the dai and the terrain of indigenous practice
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Chapter 2
Historiographies of science and medicine in India
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Chapter 3
Revisiting the clinical encounter I: sites and meanings of an emerging indigenous therapeutics
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Chapter 4
Revisiting the clinical encounter II: the emergence of the dai in the management of populations
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Chapter 5
The nation and its women: re-examining an old preoccupation
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Chapter 6
Indigenous therapeutics in the present, the recalibration of the expert domain, and the place of the dai
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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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