Article ID: CBB001420620

Dirt, Disease and Death: Control, Resistance and Change in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean (2012)

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Pemberton, Rita (Author)


História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Volume: 19, suppl. 1
Issue: suppl. 1
Pages: 47-58


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Article in a supplementary issue, “Health and Slavery”
Language: Portuguese

This study examines how health facilities and services were used as an agency of worker control in the British Caribbean between 1838 and 1860. It argues that planter health strategies were based on flawed assumptions. The resultant policy of deprivation of access to medical services by the labouring population backfired within 16 years of freedom when a cholera epidemic rocked the region. It exposed the poor living conditions of the free villages and generated fear and panic among the local elite who were forced to make policy changes regarding health and sanitation. As a result the first steps towards the establishment of public health services in the British Caribbean were stimulated.

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Authors & Contributors
Ismail, Shehab
Tina Travagliante
Zeheter, Michael
Karimkhanzand, Mostafa
Rus, Dorin-Ioan
Janakan, Gnananandan
Concepts
Epidemics
Cholera
Public health
Disease and diseases
Medicine
Medicine and society
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
Qajar dynasty, Iran (1794-1925)
Early modern
20th century
18th century
Places
United States
Brazil
Middle and Near East
Cairo (Egypt)
England
Sicily
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