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Leprosy and colonialism : Suriname under Dutch rule, 1750-1950

Snelders, Stephen, 1963- author

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Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in Suriname within the context of Dutch colonial power and racial conflict, from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to its legacy in the modern colonial state. It explores the relationship between the modern stigmatization and exclusion of people affected with leprosy, and the political tensions and racial fears originating in colonial slave society, exerting their influence until after the decolonization up to the present day. In the book colonial sources are read from shifting perspectives, of the colonial rulers and, 'from below', the ruled. Though leprosy is today a neglected tropical disease, recognizing influences of our colonial heritage in our global management of health and disease, and exploring the perspectives of other cultures are essential in a time in which migration movements make the permeability of boundaries, and transmission of diseases, more common then perhaps ever before.-- Source other than Liibary of congress.

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Subject: Leprosy Suriname History. / Leprosy history. / Colonialism history. / Social Segregation history. / History, 18th Century. / History, 19th Century. / History, 20th Century. / Leprosy. / Netherlandish colonies. / Netherlands Colonies America History. / Suriname. / America.
• ISBN: 9781526112996, 152611299X

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
RC154.55.S75 S64 2017	1	BOOK	GENERAL