Overview

This volume views the study of disease as essential to understanding the key historical developments underpinning the foundation of contemporary Indian Ocean World (IOW) societies. The interplay between disease and climatic conditions, natural and manmade crises and disasters, human migration and trade in the IOW reveals a wide range of perceptions about disease etiologies and epidemiologies, and debates over the origin, dispersion and impact of disease form a central focus in these essays. Incorporating a wide scope of academic and scientific angles including history, social and medical anthropology, archaeology, epidemiology and paleopathology, this collection focuses on diseases that spread across time, space and cultures. It scrutinizes disease as an object, and engages with the subjectivities of afflicted inhabitants of, and travellers to, the IOW.

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Author:   Gwyn Campbell ,  Eva-Maria Knoll
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783030362669

ISBN 10:   3030362663
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   01 April 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

  1.      Introduction Eva-Maria Knoll and Gwyn Campbell   2.      The Evolution and Spread of Major Human Diseases in the Indian Ocean World Monica H. Green and Lori Jones   3.      The ‘Frankish Disease’ and its Treatments in the Indian Ocean World Anna Winterbottom   4.      Reconsidering the Early History of Leprosy in Light of Advances in Paleopathology Eric Strahorn   5.      Climate, Weather and Pestilence in the Philippines since the Sixteenth Century James Warren   6.      Malaria in Precolonial Malagasy History Gwyn Campbell   7.      Disease Alcohol Consumption, and Excise in Nineteenth-Century British India Peter Hynd   8.      European Sailors, Alcohol and Cholera in Nineteenth-Century India Manikarnika Dutta   9.      Chikungunya and Epidemic Disease in the Indian Ocean World Edward A. Alpers   10.  Challenging Chikungunya: Resistance to Public Health Measures and Etiology during the 2005-2007 Epidemic in Réunion Karine Aasgaard Jansen   11.   Inherited without History? Maldive Fever and its Aftermath Eva-Maria Knoll

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Gwyn Campbell is Founding Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University, Canada. Eva-Maria Knoll is a researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria.

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