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

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Synopsis
From the 1600s, enslaved people, and after abolition of slavery, indentured labourers were transported to work on plantations in distant European colonies. Inhuman conditions and new pathogens often resulted in disease and death. Central to this book is the encounter between introduced and local understanding of disease and the therapeutic responses in the Caribbean, Indian and Pacific contexts. European response to diseases, focussed on protecting the white minority. Enslaved labourers from Africa and indentured labourers from India, China and Java provided interpretations and answers to health challenges based on their own cultures and medicinal understanding of the plants they had brought with them or which they found in the natural habitat of their new homes. Colonizers, enslaved and indentured labourers learned from each other and from the indigenous peoples who were marginalized by the expansion of plantations. This volume explores the medical, cultural and personal implications of these encounters, with the broad concept of medical pluralism linking the diversity of regional and cultural focus offered in each chapter. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Copyright:
2021

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
262 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781000329971
Related ISBNs:
9780367690618, 9781003140597
Publisher:
Manohar Publishers & Distributors New Delhi
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Henk Menke, Jane Buckingham, Farzana Gounder, Ashutosh Kumar and Maurits S. Hassankhan
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Medicine
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Henk Menke
Edited by:
Jane Buckingham
Edited by:
Farzana Gounder
Edited by:
Ashutosh Kumar
Edited by:
Maurits S. Hassankhan

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