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Diagnosing empire : women, medical knowledge, and colonial mobility / Narin Hassan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hassan, Narin, 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women physicians--Travel--India--History--19th century.
- Women physicians.
- Women physicians--Travel--Middle East--History--19th century.
- Women physicians--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Medical education--History--19th century.
- Medical education.
- History.
- Medicine--Colonies--Great Britain.
- Medicine.
- Medicine--Colonies.
- Travel.
- Great Britain.
- Physicians, Women--history.
- United Kingdom.
- India.
- Middle East.
- Colonialism--history.
- Education, Medical--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- Medicine in Literature.
- Travel--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Physicians, Women--history.
- United Kingdom.
- India.
- Middle East.
- Colonialism--history.
- Education, Medical--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- Medicine in Literature.
- Travel--history.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 133 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2011]
- Summary:
- Drawing from the example of Victorian portable medical chests and guides for British families living in the colonies, Hassan (literature, communication, and culture; Georgia Institute of Technology, US) examines how medicine and colonialism in 19th-century India and the Middle East were related to women's travel. She considers the exchanges of British women with natives through the lens of colonial medicine to suggest that foreign contact zones were spaces of invention and cultivation where women could contribute to medical culture and enjoy cultural and literary productivity. Among her topics are female travel writers and colonial knowledge, fashioning and marketing the doctress of empire, and female medical education in India. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781409426110
- 1409426114
- 9781409426127
- 1409426122
- OCLC:
- 702357281
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