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

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2017.Edition: First editionDescription: xxxv, 223 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780199468225
  • 0199468222
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.108 23 MUK
Contents:
Western Medicine, Hospitals, and Female Health in Nineteenth - Century Bengal Medical Education and Emergence of Women Medic in Colonial Bengal Modernizing Reprodctive Helath Sexuality, Domesticity, and Health advice for Women Women's work and the Politics of Health Public Health Administration, the Femine of 1943-4, and Impact on women
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.
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Western Medicine, Hospitals, and Female Health in Nineteenth - Century Bengal Medical Education and Emergence of Women Medic in Colonial Bengal Modernizing Reprodctive Helath Sexuality, Domesticity, and Health advice for Women Women's work and the Politics of Health Public Health Administration, the Femine of 1943-4, and Impact on women

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-214) and index.

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