Disease Dispersion and Impact in the Indian Ocean World

Disease Dispersion and Impact in the Indian Ocean World

Knoll, Eva-Maria; Campbell, Gwyn

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

04/2021

302

Mole

Inglês

9783030362669

15 a 20 dias

454

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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 Reunion.- 11. Inherited without History? Maldive Fever and Its Aftermath.
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Plague;Pandemics;Malaria;germ exchange;therapeutic treatments;tropical medicine;social diagnosis;disease outbreaks;health humanities;public health