TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hesselink, Liesbeth
AB  - Healers on the colonial market is one of the few studies on the Dutch East Indies from a postcolonial perspective. It provides an  enthralling addition to research on both the history of the Dutch  East Indies and the history of colonial medicine. This book will be  of interest to historians, historians of science and medicine, and  anthropologists.    How successful were the two medical training programmes  established in Jakarta by the colonial government in 1851? One  was a medical school for Javanese boys, and the other a school  for midwives for Javanese girls, and the graduates were supposed  to replace native healers, the dukun. However, the indigenous  population was not prepared to use the services of these doctors and  midwives. Native doctors did in fact prove useful as vaccinators  and assistant doctors, but the school for midwives was closed in  1875. Even though there were many horror stories of mistakes made  during dukun-assisted deliveries, the school was not reopened, and  instead a handful of girls received practical training from European  physicians. Under the Ethical Policy there was more attention for  the welfare of the indigenous population and the need for doctors  increased. More native boys received medical training and went to  work as general practitioners. Nevertheless, not everybody accepted  these native doctors as the colleagues of European physicians.    Liesbeth Hesselink (1943) received a PhD in the history of medicine  from the University of Amsterdam in 2009. She has had a career in  education and in politics. In addition she has published articles on  prostitution and the medical history of the Dutch East Indies.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_400271
ID  - OAPEN ID: 400271
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 808385728
ID  - OAPEN ID: 856976921
KW  - colonial politics
KW  - midwifery
KW  - colonial history
KW  - medical history
KW  - indonesia
KW  - colonial medicine
KW  - indigenous medicine
KW  - healthcare
KW  - Dukun
KW  - Dutch East Indies
KW  - Jakarta
KW  - Java
KW  - Netherlands
KW  - Physician
KW  - STOVIA
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/081aba28-af8e-4a5a-b7b6-f3dd9669a3eb/400271.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34586
PB  - Brill
PP  - Leiden - Boston
PY  - 2011
SN  - 9789004253575
TI  - Healers on the colonial market; Native doctors and midwives in the Dutch East Indiesnull
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