Del i serien Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies

Disease Dispersion and Impact in the Indian Ocean World

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-04-01
Mått148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt556 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
Antal sidor302
Upplaga20001
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030362638

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1. Introduction.- 2. The Evolution and Spread of Major Human Diseases in the Indian Ocean World.- 3. The ‘Frankish Disease’ and Its Treatments in the Indian Ocean World.- 4. Reconsidering the Early History of Leprosy in Light of Advances in Paleopathology.- 5.Climate, Weather and Pestilence in the Philippines since the Sixteenth Century.- 6. Malaria in Precolonial Malagasy History.- 7. Disease Alcohol Consumption, and Excise in Nineteenth-Century British India.- 8. European Sailors, Alcohol and Cholera in Nineteenth-Century India.- 9. Chikungunya and Epidemic Disease in the Indian Ocean World.- 10. Challenging Chikungunya: Resistance to Public Health Measures and Etiology during the 2005-2007 Epidemic in Réunion.- 11.Inherited without History? Maldive Fever and Its Aftermath.