Editors:
- Views the study of disease as essential to understanding the key historical developments underpinning the foundation of contemporary IOW societies
- 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
- Focuses on diseases that spread across time, space and cultures rather than on, for example, the large field of culture-specific diseases captured as culture-bound syndromes or folk illnesses
Part of the book series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies (IOWS)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Gwyn Campbell
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Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Eva-Maria Knoll
About the editors
Eva-Maria Knoll is a researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Disease Dispersion and Impact in the Indian Ocean World
Editors: Gwyn Campbell, Eva-Maria Knoll
Series Title: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36264-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36263-8Published: 01 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36266-9Published: 01 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-36264-5Published: 31 March 2020
Series ISSN: 2730-9703
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9711
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 302
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Medicine, History of Science, Imperialism and Colonialism