LEADER 04291oam 2200529K 450 001 9910860841303321 005 20240513135905.0 010 $a1-00-314059-9 010 $a1-000-32997-6 010 $a1-003-14059-9 010 $a1-000-32993-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000011475869 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6359784 035 $a(OCoLC)1229166199 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1229166199 035 $a(FlBoTFG)9781003140597 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011475869 100 $a20210108d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu---unuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aSocial aspects of health, medicine and disease in the colonial and post-colonial era /$fedited by Henk Menke, Jane Buckingham, Farzana Gounder, Ashutosh Kumar, Maurits S. Hassankhan 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (262 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-367-69061-6 327 $aCover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1: Cultural Encounters, Pluralism and Health Care -- Chapter 1: 'Colonial Care': Health and Healing for Indentured Migrants during the Journey from India to the Sugar Colonies 1830-1920 -- Chapter 2: Conversion of Maroons to Christianity, an Important Tool towards Allopathic Health Care on the Upper Suriname River (1760-1960) -- Chapter 3: Revisiting F.A. Kuhn's 'Reflection on the Situation of the Surinamese Plantation Slaves: An Economic-medical Contribution to its Improvement (1828)' -- Part 2: Pluralism and Ethno-Health Practices -- Chapter 4: Seeking Health in Multiple Ways: Self-Medication and Medical Pluralism among Patients with Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, and Saramacca and Aucan Maroons in Suriname -- Chapter 5: The Use of Medicinal Plants in Suriname: The Ethnopharmacological Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour -- Chapter 6: Health Knowledge of Former Days in a New Era -- Part 3: Leprosy in Plural Contexts -- Chapter 7: Leprosy and Forced labour: Fears and Responses of the Colonial Regime in Suriname -- Chapter 8: Disability, Leprosy, and Plantation Health among Indian Indentured Labourers in Fiji, 1879-1911 -- Chapter 9: Leprosy, a Multidimensional Approach: Colonialism, Slavery, Indentured Labour and Animal Mythology in Suriname -- Note on Contributors -- Index. 330 $aFrom 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. 606 $aSocial medicine$xHistory 608 $aHistory.$2fast 615 0$aSocial medicine$xHistory. 676 $a306.46 676 $a306.461 702 $aMenke$b Henk$f1942- 702 $aBuckingham$b Jane 702 $aGounder$b Farzana 702 $aKumar$b Ashutosh 702 $aHassankhan$b Maurits S. 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910860841303321 996 $aSocial aspects of health, medicine and disease in the colonial and post-colonial era$94165961 997 $aUNINA