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The Nature of Woman: Medical Ideas in Colonial Bengal

Supriya Guha is doing research on the history of childbirth and abortion in colonial Bengal at the Department of History, University of Calcutta. The spread of European biomedical ideas in India accompanied the growth of medical personnel and medical institutions that took place at a rapid pace from the middle of the 19th century. The new ideas that became current among medical and paramedical personnel as well as among the ’informed public’ were often received ideas (sometimes slightly dated) from Europe, but at other times, especially as we see them emerge in vernacular