Making Medical Ideologies

Indentured Labor in Mauritius

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20043726
AutoresYoshina Hurgobin (autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Páginas1-26
Data de publicação2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoHistories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume Two (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137567581_1
OpenAlexW2466002427
ISBN9781137567581
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas20

This chapter investigates how and why sugar estate owners in one Indian Ocean1 context—Mauritius—contributed to the making of a medical ideology2 that regimented the "body" of labor. While existing historiography of the relationship between colonial India and the British Empire in the tropics emphasizes the role of India as a center of sub-imperialism,3 this chapter argues that plantation colonies with their regulative security state apparatus, in collaboration with the Indian colonial state, acted as the source of particular medical ideologies and practices concerning indentured workers. By drawing on the experiences of health administration of indentured immigrant workers in Mauritius, a sugar colony in the Indian Ocean, this chapter highlights how medical ideologies concerning workers' health and the control of pandemics among workers were contingent on various factors (such as cost-cutting measures, perceptions, and physicality of climates) and were formed diversely either in Mauritius or in medical circles in Calcutta.KeywordsIndian OceanImmigrant WorkerColonial StateSugar EstateFever HospitalThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves

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