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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.
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.
This innovative book traces the history of ideas and policymaking
concerning population growth and infant and maternal welfare in
Caribbean colonies wrestling with the aftermath of slavery.
Focusing on Jamaica, Guyana, and Barbados from the nineteenth
century through the 1930s, when violent labor protests swept the
region, Juanita De Barros takes a comparative approach in analyzing
the struggles among former slaves and masters attempting to
determine the course of their societies after emancipation.
Invested in the success of the "great experiment" of slave
emancipation, colonial officials developed new social welfare and
health policies. Concerns about the health and size of ex-slave
populations were expressed throughout the colonial world during
this period. In the Caribbean, an emergent black middle class,
rapidly increasing immigration, and new attitudes toward medicine
and society were crucial factors. While hemispheric and diasporic
trends influenced the new policies, De Barros shows that local
physicians, philanthropists, midwives, and the impoverished mothers
who were the targets of this official concern helped shape and
implement efforts to ensure the health and reproduction of
Caribbean populations in the decades before independence.
This is the first reader that goes beyond the fragmentation between
Spanish, British, Dutch, and French Caribbean history to explain
slavery, emancipation, colonization and decolonization in the
region. The contributors to this pan-Caribbean approach are leading
scholars in the field, including Franklin Knight and Luis
Martinez-Fernandez.
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