Disease Dispersion and Impact in the Indian Ocean World

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.

• 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.