Gender, medicine, and society in colonial India : women's health care in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Bengal / Sujata Mukherjee.
Mukherjee, Sujata| Call Number | 362.1082095414 |
| Author | Mukherjee, Sujata, author. |
| Title | Gender, medicine, and society in colonial India : women's health care in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Bengal / Sujata Mukherjee. |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource |
| Notes | This edition previously issued in print: 2017. |
| 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. |
| Subject | Health services accessibility India Bengal History 19th century. Health services accessibility India Bengal History 20th century. Women in medicine India Bengal History 19th century. Women in medicine India Bengal History 20th century. Women India Bengal Social conditions 19th century. Women India Bengal Social conditions 20th century. India History British occupation, 1765-1947. |
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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. |
| Notes | This edition previously issued in print: 2017. |
| Subject | Health services accessibility India Bengal History 19th century. Health services accessibility India Bengal History 20th century. Women in medicine India Bengal History 19th century. Women in medicine India Bengal History 20th century. Women India Bengal Social conditions 19th century. Women India Bengal Social conditions 20th century. India History British occupation, 1765-1947. |
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