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Health and Medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800-1968 (Paperback)
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Health and Medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800-1968 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
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Health and medicine in colonial environments is one of the newest
areas in the history of medicine, but one in which the Caribbean is
conspicuously absent. Yet the complex and fascinating history of
the Caribbean, borne of the ways European colonialism combined with
slavery, indentureship, migrant labour and plantation agriculture,
led to the emergence of new social and cultural forms which are
especially evident the area of health and medicine. The history of
medical care in the Caribbean is also a history of the transfer of
cultural practices from Africa and Asia, the process of
creolization in the African and Asian diasporas, the perseverance
of indigenous and popular medicine, and the emergence of distinct
forms of western medical professionalism, science, and practice.
This collection, which covers the French, Hispanic, Dutch, and
British Caribbean, explores the cultural and social domains of
medical experience and considers the dynamics and tensions of
power. The chapters emphasize contestations over forms of
medicalization and the controls of public health and address the
politics of professionalization, not simply as an expression of
colonial power but also of the power of a local elite against
colonial or neo-colonial control. They pay particular attention to
the significance of race and gender, focusing on such topics as
conflicts over medical professionalization, control of women's
bodies and childbirth, and competition between 'European' and
'Indigenous' healers and healing practices. Employing a broad range
of subjects and methodological approaches, this collection
constitutes the first edited volume on the history of health and
medicine in the circum-Caribbean region and is therefore required
reading for anyone interested in the history of colonial and
post-colonial medicine.
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