Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume Two: The Modern Period (Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies)
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Hardcover. This interdisciplinary work presents essays on disease, medicine, and healing in the Indian Ocean World. It is the first work on medical history in the region. Themes include medical theory, concepts of fertility, material culture, healing, diplomacy, and colonialism, public health, slavery, migrant labour, and medicine. Editor(s): Winterbottom, Anna. Series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 4 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1HS; 3H; 3JB; HBG; HBLC1; HBLH; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137567611
SKU
V9781137567611
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Ref
99-15
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Anna Winterbottom is a British Academy Research Fellow at the Centre for World Environmental History, University of Sussex and Research Associate of the Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill, Canada. She is the author of Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World and the co-editor of The East India Company and the Natural World. Facil Tesfaye is an Assistant ... Read more
Reviews for Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume Two: The Modern Period (Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies)
“This collection … is the very first to use the notion of an ‘Indian Ocean world’ as a conceptual and geographical framework for the study of medicine and healing. … a wonderful addition to the swiftly expanding literature within Indian Ocean studies … . essential reading for scholars of the IOW, as well as for state and/or nation-specific specialists of ... Read more