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Social Aspects Of Health Medicine And Disease In The Colonial And Post-colonial Era
Hardback Edition: 1
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. Colonisers, enslaved and indentured labourers learned from each other and from the indigenous peoples who were marginalised 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.
Pages : 262
Publisher : Routledge
Publication date : 2020-12-23
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in the UK, Humanities, Medicine, Health And Personal Development, Social Sciences, History, Medicine, Sociology, Colonialism & Imperialism, Slavery & Abolition Of Slavery, History Of Medicine, Medical Sociology