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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主要な著者: Henk Menke, Toine Pieters, Jack Menke
フォーマット: 論文
言語:English
出版事項: MDPI AG 2020-04-01
シリーズ:Societies
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オンライン・アクセス:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/10/2/32