Leprosy and colonialism
Suriname under Dutch rule, 1750–1950
Stephen Snelders. Series edited by Professor Keir Waddington
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Author Biography
Stephen Snelders is Research Fellow at Utrecht University, Faculty of Science, Freudenthal Institute/History and Philosophy of the Sciences, The Netherlands
Manchester University Press
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date May 2017
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781526113016 / 1526113015
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatDigital
- Primary Price 114 GBP
- Pages264
- ReadershipCollege/Tertiary Education
- Publish StatusPublished
- Illustration4 graphs, 6 tables
- Biblio NotesIntroduction Part I: Leprosy in a slave society 1. The making of a colonial disease in the eighteenth century 2. A policy of 'Great Confinement', 1815-1863 3. Slaves and medicine: black perspectives 4. 'Battleground in the jungle': the Batavia leprosy asylum in the age of slavery Part II: Leprosy in a modern colonial state 5. Transformations and discussion, Suriname and the Netherlands, 1863-1890 6. Towards a modern colonial state: reorganizing leprosy care, 1890-1900 7. Developing modern leprosy politics, 1900-1950 8. Colonial medicine and folk beliefs in the modern era 9. Complex microcosms: asylums and treatments, 1900-1950 Conclusion Sources and bibliography Index