This compendium of eighteen papers, presented as a workshop, jointly organized by the Centre for Women’s Studies, Goa University, and the Goa State Commission for Women, present wide-ranging perspectives on various themes concerning women’s health in Goa. Providing an overview of health, policy and programmes, the contributors address a variety of issues pertaining to mental health, sex, sexuality, reproductivity, right to health and vulnerability of the aged in general and women in particular. They also look at the state of indigenous health care systems in Goa.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Noor Mohammad
Noor Mohammad, (b. 1942), after obtaining his M.A. degree in Geography from the University of Gorakhpur with a first class first, joined Aligarh Muslim University in 1965 as a Junior Research Fellow. He was awarded the degree of University in 1965 as a Junior Research Fellow. He was awarded the degree of Ph.D. in 1969 and joined Kirori Mal College in the same year. Since 1976 Prof. Mohammad is associated with the Delhi School of Economics as Lecturer, Reader, Professor, Head of the Department and Co-ordinator UGC-SAP and is teaching geography to post-graduate and supervising research studies in the Department of Geography. Eight scholars have been admitted to Ph.D. degrees and about 40 scholars have been awarded M.Phil. degrees under his supervision. Prof. Mohammad is actively engaged in research in the field of agricultural geography, landuse and planning and population geography and has published more than 5 dozen research papers to his credit in many scholarly referred journals. His books on agricultural Landuse in India and Caste and Primary Occupations: A Geographical analysis have been very well received and have won wide acclaim in Indian and Foreign Universities. Prof. Mohammad has edited Perspectives in Agricultural Geography (in Five Volumes) under concepts International series in Geography which has been well taken the world over.
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