Gender, medicine, and society in colonial India

• Verfasst von: Mukherjee, Sujata [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Gender, medicine, and society in colonial India
• Titelzusatz: omen's healthcare in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Bengal
• Verf.angabe: Sujata Mukherjee
• Verlagsort: New Delhi
• Verlag: Oxford University Press India
• Jahr: 2016
• Umfang: XXXV, 243 Seiten
• ISBN: 978-0-19-946822-5
• ISBN: 0-19-946822-2
• Schlagwörter: (g)Indien / (s)Frau / (s)Gesundheitswesen / (z)Geschichte 1800-1950
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Mukherjee, Sujata: Gender, medicine, and society in colonial India. - First edition.. - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2017. - 1 online resource
• K10plus-PPN: 1621977102

Abstract

This book 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. It observes that, unlike in the colonial setup, before the advent of hospital medicine women were treated mostly by female practitioners of indigenous therapies who had commendable skill as practitioners. The book also explores the linkages of growth of medical education for women and the role of the Brahmo Samaj in this process. The manuscript tackles several crucial questions including those of racial discrimination, reproductive health practices, sexual health, famines and mortality, and the role of women's agencies and other organizations in popularizing western medicine and healthcare