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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المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Henk Menke, Toine Pieters, Jack Menke
التنسيق: مقال
اللغة:English
منشور في: MDPI AG 2020-04-01
سلاسل:Societies
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/10/2/32