How Colonial Power, Colonized People, and Nature Shaped Hansen’s Disease Settlements in Suriname

According to the Dutch colonizers in Suriname, leprosy (or Hansen’s disease) was highly contagious and transmitted from human-to-human. A “<i>cordon sanitaire</i>” was constructed around the patients, mainly African slaves and Asian indentured laborers and their descendants. They were tr...

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Príomhchruthaitheoirí: Henk Menke, Toine Pieters, Jack Menke
Formáid: Alt
Teanga:English
Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: MDPI AG 2020-04-01
Sraith:Societies
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Rochtain ar líne:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/10/2/32

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