Beschreibung
This book has explored the idea of disease and medicine in the vernacular newspaper of colonial Orissa (1866 and 1900). It has tried to understand how the print capitalism commoditized medicines both indigenous and western which was earlier believed to be divine in Indic societies. Moreover, a range of information regarding common and epidemic diseases along with medicines (western/indigenous) placed in the advertisement for the benefit of Oriyas.
Autorenporträt
Ms. Jayanti Sahoo has been pursuing her doctoral degree in the Department of History, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, Odisha, India. Her area of research interest is in public health and medicine in colonial South Asia with special reference to the eastern part of India.
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