{"id":3370,"date":"2022-06-16T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2022-09-12T10:56:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T09:56:38","slug":"nations-must-be-defended-public-health-enmity-and-immunity-in-katherine-mayos-mother-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2022\/06\/16\/nations-must-be-defended-public-health-enmity-and-immunity-in-katherine-mayos-mother-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Nations Must be Defended: Public Health, Enmity, and Immunity in Katherine Mayo&#8217;s Mother India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Article Summary by Sandhya Shetty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3371\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Shetty-Sandhya-Nations-Must-be-Defended-Public-Health-Enmity-and-Immunity-in-Katherine-Mayos-Mother-India_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Shetty-Sandhya-Nations-Must-be-Defended-Public-Health-Enmity-and-Immunity-in-Katherine-Mayos-Mother-India_1.png 360w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Shetty-Sandhya-Nations-Must-be-Defended-Public-Health-Enmity-and-Immunity-in-Katherine-Mayos-Mother-India_1-239x300.png 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The article published in <em>Medical Humanities<\/em> (special issue on Global Health) is one harvest of my longstanding engagement with Katherine Mayo\u2019s <em>Mother India<\/em> (1927), a uniquely ill-natured attempt to turn the tide of interwar British imperial history. The article draws materials from a longer book project that seeks new ways of reading literature and colonial medicine over a long nineteenth century. Mayo\u2019s compendious volume serves as an important component within that project, bringing up the rear of almost half a century of bilious Western writing on medicine, disease, and health in India.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mother India <\/em>first drew my attention to medicine\u2019s usefulness for imperial apologetics. Armed with case reports on child wives and mothers generated by nineteenth-century women doctors, Mayo shamed Indians demanding self-rule. Her \u2018clinical\u2019 takedown of political nationalism led me to colonial era documents in the National Archives of India and to histories of obstetrics and gynecology. Together, these materials clarified how Victorian women strategically deployed pathetic images of suffering Oriental women, barred from male physicians, to justify their own entry into medicine. The\u00a0special issue article addresses international public health generally, but readers interested in the medical-professional background to <em>Mother India<\/em>\u2019s specifically \u2018gynecological vein\u2019 are invited to consult my earlier work on women\u2019s medicine in colonial India in <em>Genders<\/em> (1994) or <a href=\"https:\/\/nyupress.org\/9780814779989\/eroticism-and-containment\/\"><em>Eroticism and Containment<\/em> (nyupress.org)<\/a>. For a more recent study of <em>Mother India<\/em> that extends discussion of gender, medicine, and colonial nationalism into the field of animal studies, see \u201cCruel Husbandry: Vegetarians and Other Carnivores,\u201d forthcoming in <em>Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East (<\/em>special issue on the nonhuman question). This article in part explores how <em>Mother India<\/em>\u2019s sensational articulation of women\u2019s health and abusive animal husbandry sought to whip up international hostility toward demands for self-determination spearheaded by M.K. Gandhi. For\u00a0Gandhi\u2019s 1926 correspondence with Mayo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mkgandhi.org\/letters\/others\/mayo.htm\">MAYO (mkgandhi.org)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0review of\u00a0<em>Mother India: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/timesmachine.nytimes.com\/timesmachine\/1927\/10\/09\/96674494.html?pageNumber=70\">Times Machine: October 9, 1927 &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3372 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Shetty-Sandhya-Nations-Must-be-Defended-Public-Health-Enmity-and-Immunity-in-Katherine-Mayos-Mother-India_2.png\" alt=\"Mother India\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Shetty-Sandhya-Nations-Must-be-Defended-Public-Health-Enmity-and-Immunity-in-Katherine-Mayos-Mother-India_2.png 640w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/files\/2022\/06\/Shetty-Sandhya-Nations-Must-be-Defended-Public-Health-Enmity-and-Immunity-in-Katherine-Mayos-Mother-India_2-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/mh.bmj.com\/content\/48\/2\/144\"><strong>Read the full article on the <em>Medical Humanities <\/em>journal website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/h3>\n<p><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Summary by Sandhya Shetty The article published in Medical Humanities (special issue on Global Health) is one harvest of my longstanding engagement with Katherine Mayo\u2019s Mother India (1927), a uniquely ill-natured attempt to turn the tide of interwar British imperial history. 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