Healers on the colonial market : native doctors and midwives in the Dutch East Indies

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Healers on the colonial market : native doctors and midwives in the Dutch East Indies

Title remainder

native doctors and midwives in the Dutch East Indies

Statement of responsibility

Liesbeth Hesselink

Creator

• Hesselink, Elisabeth Quirine, 1943-

Contributor

• Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands)

Author

• Hesselink, Elisabeth Quirine, 1943-

Subject

• Healers -- Indonesia -- History -- 19th century
• Healers -- Indonesia -- History -- 20th century
• History
• Indonesia
• Medical care
• Medical care -- Indonesia -- History -- 19th century
• Medical care -- Indonesia -- History -- 20th century
• Midwives -- Training of
• Midwives -- Training of -- Indonesia -- History -- 19th century
• Midwives -- Training of -- Indonesia -- History -- 20th century
• Physicians -- Training of
• Physicians -- Training of -- Indonesia -- History -- 19th century
• Physicians -- Training of -- Indonesia -- History -- 20th century
•  Unknown Label
• Healers
• 1800 - 1999

Genre

• History

Language

• eng
• dut
• eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 276
• Genezers op de koloniale markt

Is Subseries of

• Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde

Additional physical form

Also available in print form.

Cataloging source

NL-LeKB

Dewey number

610.9

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

index present

LC call number

RA541.I55

LC item number

H45 2011

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde

Series volume

276