Gender, medicine, and society in colonial India : women's health care in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Bengal / Sujata Mukherjee.
2017
RA530
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Title
Gender, medicine, and society in colonial India : women's health care in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Bengal / Sujata Mukherjee.
Author
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780199087426 (electronic book)
Published
New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
RA530
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.1082095414
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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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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 15, 2016).
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Print version: 9780199468225
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