ISBN:
9783030362645
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (313 pages)
Series Statement:
Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
614.4091824
Keywords:
Diseases-Social aspects
;
Diseases Social aspects
;
Diseases History
;
Medical geography
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Charts -- List of Maps -- List of Pictures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Environment and Movement -- Disease in IOW History -- The Role of Islands -- Early Disease Control and Treatment -- Origins, Routes, and Impact of Disease -- Disease Dispersion: Tracing Dynamic Biosocial Phenomena -- References -- Chapter 2: The Evolution and Spread of Major Human Diseases in the Indian Ocean World -- Infectious Diseases in the Indian Ocean Basin -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: The 'Frankish Disease' and Its Treatments in the Indian Ocean World -- Introduction -- Historiography -- Sources -- Treatments -- Guaiacum -- Smilax -- Mercury -- Re-imagining the Frankish Disease -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4: Reconsidering the Early History of Leprosy in Light of Advances in Palaeopathology -- Introduction -- A Definition of Leprosy -- Hypotheses for the Early History of Leprosy -- Literary Evidence from Ancient China, India, Egypt and the Mediterranean -- Archaeology and the Early History of Leprosy: The Osteological Evidence -- The Impact of Molecular Biology -- Methods for DNA Analysis -- The Findings of DNA Analysis -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Climate, Weather and Pestilence in the Philippines Since the Sixteenth Century -- Introduction -- The Weather, Colonialism and Disease -- Typhoons, Floods and Diseases -- Smallpox -- Water-Borne Diseases, Storms and Floods -- Cholera -- American Rule and the Cholera Epidemic of 1902-1904 -- Post-Colonial Response to Water-Borne and Infectious Diseases -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Malaria in Precolonial Malagasy History -- Introduction: The Advent of Malaria in the Highlands of Madagascar -- Causes of Malaria -- Symptoms -- Treatment -- Indigenous Treatment -- Western Treatment.
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