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600466
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b429685
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Histories of medicine and healing in the Indian Ocean World.\ edited by Anna Winterbottom and Facil Tesfaye
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| Series Statement
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Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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1 online resource.
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9781137567581
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: 1137567589
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9781137567611
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9781349562695
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Making Medical Ideologies: Indentured Labor in Mauritius*; 2 Treating Black Deaths in Egypt: ; 3 Rockefeller Public Health in Colonial India; 4 Colonial Madness: Community and Lunacy in Nineteenth-Century India; 5 Russian Medical Diplomacy in Ethiopia, 1896-1913; 6 Tropical Disease and the Making of France in Réunion; 7 Medicine on the Edge: Luso-Asian Encounters in the Island of Chiloane, Sofala; 8 Zigua Medicine, between Mountains and Ocean: People, Performances, and Objects in Healing Motion
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9 Indian Ocean Worlds: Tracing South African "Indigenous Medicine"Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
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This interdisciplinary work presents essays on disease, medicine, and healing in the Indian Ocean World. It is the first work on medical history in the region. Themes include medical theory, concepts of fertility, material culture, healing, diplomacy, and colonialism, public health, slavery, migrant labour, and medicine
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Medicine-- Indian Ocean Region-- History.
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Medicine-- Indian Ocean Region.
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Medicine, Medieval-- Indian Ocean Region.
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Traditional medicine-- Indian Ocean Region-- History.
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Traditional medicine-- Indian Ocean Region.
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Healing-- Indian Ocean Region.
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Indian Ocean Region, History.
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| Dewey Classification
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615.8/8091824
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R605
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Winterbottom, Anna,1979-
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Tesfaye, Facil
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Ohio Library and Information Network.
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