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Social Aspects of Health, Medicine and Disease in the Colonial and Post-colonial Era (Hardcover)
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Social Aspects of Health, Medicine and Disease in the Colonial and Post-colonial Era (Hardcover)
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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. This volume explores the medical,
cultural and personal implications of these encounters, with the
broad concept of medical pluralism linking the diversity of
regional and cultural focus offered in each chapter. Please note:
Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in
India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
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