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Center for the History and Culture of Medicine
(Department of History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University
of London; Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, LONDON WC1H 0XG)
Population, Birth Control and Reproductive Health in Late Colonial India
18-19 November 1999
SOAS Room B104, Brunei Gallery
- All are welcome to attend
Schedule
THURSDAY 18 NOVEMBER 1999
10:30 AM Opening Remarks by Sarah Hodges
10:45-11:45 David Arnold, SOAS
Official Attitudes to Population, Birth Control and
Reproductive Health, 1926-1946
11:45-12:45 Sarah Hodges, University of Chicago
Eugenic Maternity
LUNCH
2:00-3:00 Barbara Ramusack, University of Cincinnati
What did they know and when? Medical Women in India and
Birth Control
3:00-4:00 Indira Chowdhury, Jadhavpur University
Instructions for the Unconverted: Birth Control, Marie
Stopes and Indian Women
TEA
4:20-5:20 Sanjam Ahluwalia, University of Cincinnati
Gandhi, Sex and Birth Control
FRIDAY 19 NOVEMBER 1999
10:30 TEA
10:45-11:45 Maneesha Lal, Centre Alexandre Koyre
Purdah as Pathology: Medical Research and Reproductive
Health in Twentieth-Century India
11:45-12:45 Charu Gupta, SOAS
Hindu Wombs, Muslim Progeny: The Numbers Game and
Shifting Debates on Widow Remarriage: U.P., 1890s-1930s
LUNCH
2:00-3:00 Supriya Guha, Indpendent Scholar
Purdah and Women's Health in Colonial Bengal
3:00-4:00 Andhu Malhotra, Delhi University
Of Dais and Midwives-- 'Middle Class' Interventions in
the Management of Women's Reproductive Health: A Study from Colonial Punjab
TEA
4:20-5:20 Round-table discussion
Dr. Christopher Cullen
Department of History
School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
tel +44 171 637 2388
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