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For the Health of the Enslaved: Slaves, Medicine and Power in the Danish West Indies, 1803-1848 de Niklas Thode Jensen

For the Health of the Enslaved: Slaves, Medicine and Power in the Danish West Indies, 1803-1848

Autor Niklas Thode Jensen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 mar 2012
With the abolition of the Danish slave trade in the early nineteenth century, slave health had become a central concern in the Danish West Indies for plantation owners and colonial administrators who were no longer able to replace a population decimated by high mortality rates with slaves from Africa. In For the Health of the Enslaved, Niklas Thode Jensen offers a comprehensive look at the health conditions of the enslaved at that time and how health care policy fueled an ongoing power struggle between planters, administrators, and the enslaved in the waning years of human bondage in the New World.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9788763531719
ISBN-10: 8763531712
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 7 color plates, 3 halftones, 5 maps, 40 tables
Dimensiuni: 162 x 241 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Editura: Museum Tusculanum Press
Colecția Museum Tusculanum Press

Notă biografică

Niklas Thode Jensen is assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Copenhagen. 

Cuprins

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction
     Subject and Research Questions
    Definitions
    Methods and Structures
    Hypotheses and Theories
    The Source material
    Historiography
Chapter 2: Context
    Danish, British and French West Indian History, Geography and Ecology
    Demography in West Indian Enslaved Populations
    The Development of Western Medicine and the Health Service on St Croix
    The Medicine of the Enslaved: Obeah and Herbs
Chapter 3: Diseases, Therapies, and Causes of Death
     The Diseases of the Enslaved Workers and the Doctors' Therapies
    Seasonal Morbidity
    Causes of Death among Enslaved Plantation Workers, 1842–47
    Slave Laws and Health Factors
Chapter 4: Three Case Studies of the Health Policy of the Danish Colonial Administration
    The Puzzle of Nutrition: Requirements, Rations, Crops and Natural Resources
    Smallpox, Inoculation and Vaccination
    Midwives, Obstetrics and Births
Chapter 5: Conclusion
     The Medical World, Morbidity, and Mortality among the Enslaved Workers on St Croix

Appendix
List of figures, tables and calculations
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

“Few scholars have the necessary language skills to explore sugar slavery in the Danish and Dutch West Indies. In For the Health of the Enslaved: Slaves, medicine and power in the Danish West Indies, 1803-1848, Niklas Thode Jensen offers us a rare opportunity to learn about aspects of sugar planting and its impact on the enslaved in St. Croix, the primary sugar island in the Danish West Indies.”

“Jensen succeeds in filling a tremendous gap in medical history and Caribbean history—namely, the state of health of the enslaved in the Danish West Indies. . . .[His] fine book will appeal to a variety of readers. Historians of medicine will find an excellent examination of slave health and colonial medicine. Scholars of the Caribbean will welcome this outstanding investigation into the medical world and disease environment of the Danish West Indies. Finally, students of slavery will appreciate Jensen’s investigation into the lives and deaths of enslaved workers in this part of the world.”