Disease dispersion and impact in the Indian Ocean world
Bände/Inhalt:
- 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 A. Strahorn - 5. Climate, weather and pestilence in the Philippines since the sixteenth century / James Francis 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 aetiology during the 2005-2007 epidemic in reunion / Karine Aasgaard Jansen - 11. Inherited without history?: Maldive fever and its aftermath / Eva-Maria Knoll
- 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.