Editors: Anna Winterbottom (University of Sussex) & Facil Tesfaye (University of Hong Kong)
Publisher: Springer, 2023
This interdisciplinary work, the first of two volumes, presents essays on various aspects of disease, medicine, and healing in different locations in and around the Indian Ocean from the ninth century to the early modern period. Themes include theoretical explanations for disease, concepts of fertility, material culture, healing in relation to diplomacy and colonialism, public health, and the health of slaves and migrant workers.
Overall, the books argue that, throughout the period of study, the Indian Ocean has been the site of multiple interconnected medical interactions that may be viewed in the context of the environmental factors connecting the region. The two volumes are the first to use the Indian Ocean World as a geographical and conceptual framework for the study of disease. It will appeal to academics and graduate students working in the fields of medical and scientific history, as well as in the growing fields of Indian Ocean studies and global history.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction – Anna Winterbottom & Facil Tesfaye
An Insight into al-Razi’s Extraordinary Theoretical and Practical Contributions for Developing Arthrology – Mahmud Angrini
Exchanges and Transformations in Gendered Medicine on the Maritime Silk Road: Evidence from the Thirteenth-Century Java Sea Wreck – Amanda Respess & Lisa C. Niziolek
Saints, Serpents, and Terrifying Goddesses: Fertility Culture on the Malabar Coast (c. 1500–1800) – P. K. Yasser Arafath
The Circulation of Medical Knowledge through Tamil Manuscripts in Early Modern Paris, Halle, Copenhagen, and London – S. Jeyaseela Stephen
Medicine, Money, and the Making of the East India Company State: William Roxburgh in Madras, c. 1790 – Minakshi Menon
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index