Diagnosing empire : women, medical knowledge, and colonial mobility /

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Author / Creator:Hassan, Narin, 1969-
Imprint:Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2011.
Description:viii, 133 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8828349
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ISBN:9781409426110 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1409426114 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781409426127 (ebook)
1409426122 (ebook)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: medicine and mobility: women, travel and the circulation of colonial knowledge
  • Public anatomies: female travel writers and colonial knowledge
  • Tools, tinctures, and texts: fashioning and marketing the 'doctress' of empire
  • Female prescriptions: women, medical travel and professional medicine in India
  • Writing reform: narrating the 'new woman' and female medical education in India
  • Epilogue
  • Works cited
  • Index