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.

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Yes, you can access Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume Two by Anna Winterbottom, Facil Tesfaye, Anna Winterbottom,Facil Tesfaye in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Asian History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2016

Print ISBN

9781349562695, 9781137567611

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Index

Cover
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1 Making Medical Ideologies: Indentured Labor in Mauritius
2 Treating Black Deaths in Egypt: Clot-Bey, African Slaves, and the Plague Epidemic of 1834–1835
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

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