英国における女性医師の専門職化と表象のインド、1877-1900年

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In this article, it is proved how much India contributed to the development of the profession of British women doctors. After a path for British female medical students to be registered doctors was opened in 1877, both numbers of women doctors and their training facilities increased. At the same time, women doctors found India an ideal ground where they could pursue their mission as middle-class, Christian, and female doctors. India provided women doctors with a large amount of potential patients, opportunities of training, and justification of their profession. Want of women doctors in India was a popular discourse in Britain especially after Queen Victoria showed her sympathy for Indian women in 1881. It resulted in establishing the Lady Dufferin's Fund, whose purpose was supplying female medical aid to women in India, and its "immense success" which made British society recognize the professional status of women doctors.