Social Aspects of Health, Medicine and Disease in the Colonial and Post-colonial Era by Menke, Henk

Social Aspects of Health, Medicine and Disease in the Colonial and Post-colonial Era (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780367690618)

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Social Aspects of Health, Medicine and Disease in the Colonial and Post-colonial Era by Menke, Henk

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

$200.00
Social Aspects of Health, Medicine and Disease in the Colonial and Post-colonial Era by Menke, Henk

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

$200.00
Format: Hardcover
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Inhuman conditions in distant European colonies where enslaved and indentured labourers were transported and new pathogens often resulted in disease and death. This book explores the encounter between introduced and local understanding of disease and the thera­peutic responses in the Caribbean, Indian and Pacific contexts.

Author: Henk Menke
ISBN-10: 0367690616
ISBN-13: 9780367690618
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 12/03/2020
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.60w x 0.80d
By Henk Menke
By Henk Menke
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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.

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.

Farzana Gounder is a linguist and Deputy Head of School (Research) at IPU New Zealand Tertiary Institute. Her current research lies at the intersection of indenture studies and the sociology of health.

Ashutosh Kumar is a historian who has published on Indian indenture, including health and diet on the indenture journey. Currently, he is a fellow at Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi.

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.

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