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dc.contributor.authorHesselink, Liesbeth
dc.date.accessioned2011-12-31 23:55:55
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-26 00:00:00
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T15:20:40Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T15:20:40Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier400271
dc.identifierOCN: 808385728en_US
dc.identifier856976921en_US
dc.identifier.issn1572-2892;1572-1892
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34586
dc.description.abstractHealers 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVerhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH Historyen_US
dc.subject.othercolonial politics
dc.subject.othermidwifery
dc.subject.othercolonial history
dc.subject.othermedical history
dc.subject.otherindonesia
dc.subject.othercolonial medicine
dc.subject.otherindigenous medicine
dc.subject.otherhealthcare
dc.subject.otherDukun
dc.subject.otherDutch East Indies
dc.subject.otherJakarta
dc.subject.otherJava
dc.subject.otherNetherlands
dc.subject.otherPhysician
dc.subject.otherSTOVIA
dc.titleHealers on the colonial market; Native doctors and midwives in the Dutch East Indies
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.26530/OAPEN_400271
oapen.relation.isPublishedByaf16fd4b-42a1-46ed-82e8-c5e880252026
oapen.relation.isbn9789004253575
oapen.collectionOAPEN-NL
oapen.series.number276
oapen.pages376
oapen.place.publicationLeiden - Boston
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Dukun - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dukun; Dutch East Indies - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_Indies; Jakarta - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta; Java - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java; Midwife - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwife; Midwifery - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwifery; Netherlands - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands; Physician - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician; STOVIA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOVIA
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oapen.identifier.ocn856976921


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