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 edition previously issued in print: 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience
Specialized
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Online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 15, 2016)