Social Aspects of Health, Medicine and Disease in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Era

by Jane Buckingham

From 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367690616
• ISBN13: 9780367690618
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 9.0"