Gender, medicine, and society in colonial India : women's health care in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Bengal / Sujata Mukherjee.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2017.Edition: First editionDescription: xxxv, 223 pages ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780199468225
- 0199468222
- Women's health services
- Women's health services
- Medical education
- Medical education
- Women in medicine
- Women in medicine
- -- India -- Bengal -- History -- 19th century
- -- India -- Bengal -- History -- 20th century
- -- India -- Bengal -- History -- 19th century
- -- India -- Bengal -- History -- 20th century
- -- India -- Bengal -- History -- 19th century
- -- India -- Bengal -- History -- 20th century
- 362.108 23 MUK
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362.1071 MCI Key concepts in healthcare education / | 362.108 FEA Working with men in health and social care / | 362.108 MUK Gender, medicine, and society in colonial India : | 362.108 MUK Gender, medicine, and society in colonial India : | 362.108 RIT Multicultural health / | 362.1089 BHO Migration, ethnicity, race, and health in multicultural societies / | 362.109 Heal-thy India / |
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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