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Leprosy and Colonialism - Suriname Under Dutch Rule, 1750-1950 (Hardcover)
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Leprosy and Colonialism - Suriname Under Dutch Rule, 1750-1950 (Hardcover)
Series: Social Histories of Medicine
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Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in
Suriname within the context of Dutch colonial power and racial
conflict, from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to the
modern colonial state. It explores the relationship between the
modern stigmatization and exclusion of people affected with
leprosy, and the political tensions and racial fears originating in
colonial slave society, exerting their influence until after the
decolonization up to the present day. In the book colonial sources
are read from shifting perspectives, of the colonial rulers and,
'from below', the ruled. Though leprosy is today a neglected
tropical disease, recognizing influences of our colonial heritage
in our global management of health and disease, and exploring the
perspectives of other cultures are essential in a time in which
migration movements make the permeability of boundaries, and
transmission of diseases, more common then perhaps ever before. --
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