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Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World : Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000 by Anne Gerritsen; Burton Cleetus is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World : Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000 about?
Introducing materiality into the study of the history of medicine, this volume hones in on communities across the Indian Ocean World and explores how they understood and engaged with health and medical commodities. Opening up spatial dimensions and challenging existing approaches to knowledge, power and the market, it defines 'therapeutic commodity' and explores how different materials were understood and engaged with in various settings and for a number of purposes. Offering new spatial realms
Who reads Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World : Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Anne Gerritsen; Burton Cleetus
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781350278271
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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