Leprosy and colonialism: Suriname under Dutch rule, 1750–1950 [1 ed.] 152611299X, 9781526112996

Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Part I Leprosy In A Slave Society
1 The making of a colonial disease in the eighteenth century
Suriname in the eighteenth century
Racial differences in susceptibility to disease
Public hygiene policies, medicine, and slave labour management
Godfried Schilling and the colonial and racial framing of leprosy
Schilling’s framing of leprosy
Diagnosis and treatment
Treatments on the plantations
Conclusion
Notes
2 A policy of ‘Great Confinement’, 1815–1863
Return of Dutch colonial rule and renewed fears about leprosy
European medical profeswsionals
Medical perspectives on leprosy and elephantiasis
Treatments
Prevention and segregation
Advising stricter policies
The decline of the ‘Great Confinement’ policy
Conclusion
Notes
3 Slaves and medicine: black perspectives
The natural: herbal medicine
The supernatural: the treef
Conclusion
Notes
4 ‘Battleground in the jungle’: the Batavia leprosy asylum in the age of slavery
A new alliance between the colonial state and the Roman Catholic Church
Christianising Batavia
Batavia in 1827
The danger of Protestant competition
Population numbers
Order and disorder
Conclusion
Notes
Part II Leprosy In A Modern Colonial State
5 Transformations and discussion: Suriname and the Netherlands, 1863–1890
New migrant labour
Reorganizations
Impact on leprosy control
Calling upon expertise from Suriname: the Bronbeek affair
The danger of contagion: the medical thesis of Drognat Landré
Contagion versus inheritance
Medical debates without policy consequences
Conclusion
Notes
6 Towards a modern colonial state: reorganizing leprosy care, 1890–1900
The Peters report
Unrest in Batavia
The Catholics move
Religious battleground
Building a new consensus
Private asylums
The new state asylum
Conclusion
Notes
7 Developing modern leprosy politics, 1900–1950
Reformulating the leprosy edict: failed attempts
Continuing fears
Dutch colonial medicine and the need for reform
A third alternative
The edict of 1929
The authoritarian hand of the colonial state: the crisis of the 1930s
Leprosy detection in action: the firm hand of the state
Detection in action: counting the numbers
Infrapolitics and leprosy: non-.cooperation and friction
The Second World War and the end of Dutch colonial rule
Conclusion
Notes
8 Colonial medicine and folk beliefs in the modern era
Fears of Afro-.Surinamese beliefs and practices
Treef and smallpox vaccination
Thinking about the treef
The treef survey
Vampires, insects, and leprosy
The British Indians
The Javanese
Conclusion
Notes
9 Complex microcosms: asylums and treatments, 1900–1950
Historiography of the modern asylum
Groot-Chatillon
Majella
Bethesda and New-Bethesda
Medical treatments
Conclusion
Notes
Conclusion
Notes
Sources and select bibliography
Primary sources, unpublished
Archives
Primary sources available online
Primary sources, printed
Journals
Books and articles
Secondary sources, published books and articles
Secondary sources, unpublished manuscripts
Index

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