Histories of medicine and healing in the Indian Ocean World.
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Anna Winterbottom and Facil Tesfaye
Volume Designation
Volume two,dollar5The modern period /
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource.
SERIES
Series Title
Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Making Medical Ideologies: Indentured Labor in Mauritius*; 2 Treating Black Deaths in Egypt: ; 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
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9 Indian Ocean Worlds: Tracing South African "Indigenous Medicine"Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume Two : The Modern Period
International Standard Book Number
9781137567611
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Healing-- Indian Ocean Region.
Medicine-- Indian Ocean Region-- History.
Medicine-- Indian Ocean Region.
Medicine, Medieval-- Indian Ocean Region.
Traditional medicine-- Indian Ocean Region-- History.