Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume Two [electronic resource] : The Modern Period /
Winterbottom, Anna.editor.
Tesfaye, Facil.editor.
The Indian Ocean has been the site of multiple interconnected medical interactions that may be viewed in the context of the environmental factors connecting the region. This interdisciplinary work presents essays on various aspects of disease, medicine, and healing in different locations in and around the Indian Ocean from the eighteenth century to the contemporary era. The essays explore theoretical explanations for disease, concepts of fertility, material culture, healing in relation to diplomacy and colonialism, public health, and the health of slaves and migrant workers. This book will appeal to academics and graduate students working in the fields of medical and scientific history, as well as in the growing fields of Indian Ocean studies and global history.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Making Medical Ideologies: Indentured Labor in Mauritius*; 2 Treating Black Deaths in Egypt: ; 3 Rockefeller Public Health in Colonial India; 4 Colonial Madness: Community and Lunacy in Nineteenth-Century India; 5 Russian Medical Diplomacy in Ethiopia, 1896-1913; 6 Tropical Disease and the Making of France in Réunion; 7 Medicine on the Edge: Luso-Asian Encounters in the Island of Chiloane, Sofala; 8 Zigua Medicine, between Mountains and Ocean: People, Performances, and Objects in Healing Motion
9 Indian Ocean Worlds: Tracing South African "Indigenous Medicine"Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Indian Ocean has been the site of multiple interconnected medical interactions that may be viewed in the context of the environmental factors connecting the region. This interdisciplinary work presents essays on various aspects of disease, medicine, and healing in different locations in and around the Indian Ocean from the eighteenth century to the contemporary era. The essays explore theoretical explanations for disease, concepts of fertility, material culture, healing in relation to diplomacy and colonialism, public health, and the health of slaves and migrant workers. This book will appeal to academics and graduate students working in the fields of medical and scientific history, as well as in the growing fields of Indian Ocean studies and global history.
History.
Asia-History.
Civilization-History.
Islands of the Pacific-History.
World history.
History of Science.
Asian History.
Cultural History.
History of South Asia.
Australasian History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.