Sujata Mukherjee

Gender, Medicine, and Society in Colonial India

Women's Health Care in Nineteenth- And Early Twentieth-Century Bengal

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Produktbeschreibung

This manuscript analyses the interface between medicine and colonial society through the lens of gender. The work traces the growth of hospital medicine in nineteenth century Bengal and shows how it created a space-albeit small-for providing western health care to female patients. The book also explores the growth of Western medical education among women in Bengal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 148mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780199468225
• ISBN-10: 0199468222
• Artikelnr.: 47868993

Autorenporträt

Sujata Mukherjee is Professor, Department of History, and Dean of Arts Faculty, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. She was the ICCR Visiting Chair at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, between July and October 2016. The book also explores the growth of Western medical education among women in Bengal.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements ix
* Introduction xi
* 1: Western Medicine, Hospitals, and Female Health in
Nineteenth-Century Bengal 1
* 2: Medical Education and Emergence of Women Medics in Colonial Bengal
38
* 3: Modernizing Reproductive Health 69
* 4: Sexuality, Domesticity, and Health Advice for Women 95
* 5: Women's Work and the Politics of Health 120
* 6: Public Health Administration, the Famine of 1943-4, and Impact on
Women 146
* Epilogue 176
* Bibliography 186
* Index 215
* About the Author 224