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

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

Author:

Ashutosh Kumar

,

Henk Menke

,

Farzana Gounder

,

Maurits S. Hassankhan

,

Jane Buckingham

Publisher:

MANOHAR PUBLISHERS AND DISTRIBUTORS

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Publisher

MANOHAR PUBLISHERS AND DISTRIBUTORS
Publication Year 2020
ISBN-13

9789390035564
ISBN-10 9789390035564
Binding

Hardcover
Edition FIRST
Number of Pages 261 Pages
Language (English)
Dimensions (Cms) 22x14x1.5
Weight (grms) 448

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. 

Ashutosh Kumar

Ashutosh Kumar is a postdoctoral Research Fellow on AHRC ‘Becoming Coolies' Project at University of Leeds, United Kingdom. He completed his Ph.D. from University of Delhi. He was also Fellow at The Gilder Lehrman Centre for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University, Connecticut, and at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla.

Henk Menke

Henk Menke is a dermatologist (retired) and medical historian. He is guest researcher at the Freudenthal Institute (Utrecht University, The Nether­lands), and is currently involved in multidisciplinary leprosy research.

Farzana Gounder

Farzana Gounder is a linguist and Deputy Head of School (Research) at IPU New Zealand Tertiary Institute. Her research area is oral narratives of indenture and their role in the collective memory.

Maurits S. Hassankhan

Maurits S. Hassankhan is a historian and senior lecturer/researcher at the Anton de Kom University, Suriname. He has organized several international conferences on slavery and Indentured labour and diaspora.

Jane Buckingham

Jane Buckingham is Associate Professor of History at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Her research interests include the history of medicine, health, civil and criminal law and disability.
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