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Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World - Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000 (Hardcover)
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Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World - Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000 (Hardcover)
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Introducing materiality into the study of the history of medicine,
this volume hones in on communities across the Indian Ocean World
and explores how they understood and engaged with health and
medical commodities. Opening up spatial dimensions and challenging
existing approaches to knowledge, power and the market, it defines
'therapeutic commodity' and explores how different materials were
understood and engaged with in various settings and for a number of
purposes. Offering new spatial realms within which the circulation
of commodities created new regimes of meaning, Histories of Health
and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World demonstrates how
medicinal substances have had immediate and far-reaching economic
and political consequences in various capacities. From midwifery
and umbilical cords, to the social spaces of soap, perfumes in
early modern India and remedies for leprosy, this volume considers
a vast range of material culture in medicinal settings to better
understand the history of medicine and its role in global
connections since the early 17th century.
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