Samiksha Sehrawat

Colonial Medical Care in North India

Gender, State, and Society, C. 1840-1920

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how medical care was introduced, expanded, and funded by the colonial state. Intent on limiting medical expenditure, the colonial state created a medical infrastructure with regional and rural-urban disparities in access to medical care, with an over-reliance on the private and voluntary sectors. For the first time, this book analyses medical care for both male and female patients, examining Dufferin Fund hospitals and hospitals for Indian soldiers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 145mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780198096603
• ISBN-10: 0198096607
• Artikelnr.: 40185903

Autorenporträt

Samiksha Sehrawat is Lecturer in the History of Medicine and South Asia at Newcastle University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* List of Abbreviations
* Introduction
* 1. Medical Expenditure as State Charity: the Roots of Colonial
Medical Care, c. 1835-80
* 2. Financing an Expanding System of Medical Care: the Colonial State
and its Critics, c. 1890-1920
* 3. Popularity of Eye Surgery and Problems of Colonial Hospital
Finance in Delhi
* 4. Zenana Medical Care: the Dufferin Fund, the Colonial State and
Female Medical Experts
* 5. Founding the Women's Medical Service in India: The Colonial State
and the 'Medical Needs' of Indian Women
* 6. Army Hospitals for Indian Employees: Ethnicity and 'Economy' in
Colonial Medical Care
* Epilogue
* Bibliography
* Index
* About the Author