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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
Published New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 15, 2016)
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
Women's Health Services -- history
Women's Health -- history
Education, Medical -- history
Colonialism -- history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Health services accessibility
Women in medicine
Women -- Social conditions
SUBJECT India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064915
India https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007194
Subject India
India -- Bengal
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199087426
0199087423