Gender, medicine, and society in colonial India : women's health care in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Bengal /
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Delhi :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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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| Item Description: | This edition previously issued in print: 2017. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199087426 0199087423 |