TY  - BOOK
AU  - Snelders,Stephen
TI  - Leprosy and colonialism: Suriname under Dutch rule, 1750-1950 
T2  - Manchester History of Medicine
SN  - 9781526113023
AV  - RC154 .L477 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Leprosy
KW  - Suriname
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction --; 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 select bibliography; 2; b
N2  - 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
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