Gender, medicine, and society in colonial India: women's health care in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Bengal

This volume analyses the interface between medicine and colonial society through the lens of gender. The author deals with a number of issues like women's health and hospitals, modernisation of reproductive health, marginalisation of traditional women healers, emergence of women physicians. She...

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Main Author: Mukherjee, Sujata (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2017
Edition:First edition
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Online Access:BSB01
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Summary:This volume analyses the interface between medicine and colonial society through the lens of gender. The author deals with a number of issues like women's health and hospitals, modernisation of reproductive health, marginalisation of traditional women healers, emergence of women physicians. She also analyses evolution of public health care, different dimensions of domesticity, sexuality, politics of health, famine, epidemics and their impact on women's health care
Item Description:This edition previously issued in print: 2017. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:1 online resource
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199468225.001.0001

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