4 décembre 2012
Fabrice Melka, « Reproductive Health and Child Birth: Revisiting the Technological Intervention in Colonial Bengal », Femmes, genre, colonisations, ID : 10670/1.pg612v
The proposed study seeks to engage with two things: first, it intends to explore the historical trajectory which made technological intervention in reproductive health and child birth in colonial Bengal a pressing medical imperative, and second, it will attempt to explicate the cultural implications of this intervention in an era of cultural transition from pre-modern to “modern” under the British rule. In recent writings on reproductive health, a sharp historical focus on the use of surgical...