Social Aspects of Health, Medicine and Disease in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Era

ISBN-13: 9780367690618 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 262 str.

Henk Menke; Jane Buckingham; Farzana Gounder

Opis

Inhuman conditions in distant European colonies where enslaved and indentured labourers were transported and new pathogens often resulted in disease and death. This book explores the encounter between introduced and local understanding of disease and the thera­peutic responses in the Caribbean, Indian and Pacific contexts.

Spis treści

Introduction Part 1: Cultural Encounters, Pluralism and Health Care 1. ‘Colonial Care’: Health and Healing for Indentured Migrants during the Journey from India to the Sugar Colonies 1830-1920 2. Conversion of Maroons to Christianity, an Important Tool towards Allopathic Health Care on the Upper Suriname River (1760-1960) 3. Revisiting F.A. Kuhn’s ‘Reflection on the Situation of the Surinamese Plantation Slaves: An Economic-medical Contribution to its Improvement (1828)’ Part 2: Pluralism and Ethno-Health Practices 4. Seeking Health in Multiple Ways: Self-Medication and Medical Pluralism among Patients with Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, and Saramacca and Aucan Maroons in Suriname 5. The Use of Medicinal Plants in Suriname: The Ethnopharmacological Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour 6. Health Knowledge of Former Days in a New Era Part 3: Leprosy in Plural Contexts 7. Leprosy and Forced labour: Fears and Responses of the Colonial Regime in Suriname 8. Disability, Leprosy, and Plantation Health among Indian Indentured Labourers in Fiji, 1879-1911 9. Leprosy, a Multidimensional Approach: Colonialism, Slavery, Indentured Labour and Animal Mythology in Suriname