| Description |
1 online resource (262 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- 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)' |
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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 |
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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 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Buckingham, Jane
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Gounder, Farzana
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Kumar, Ashutosh
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Hassankhan, Maurits S
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| ISBN |
9781000329933 |
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1000329933 |
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