Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume One

Anna Winterbottom is a British Academy Research Fellow at the Centre for World Environmental History, University of Sussex and Research Associate of the Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill, Canada. She is author of Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World  and co-editor of The East India Company and the Natural World.Facil Tesfaye is an Assistant Professor and Director of the African Studies Programme of the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Statistique(s) et génocide au Rwanda: La genèse d'un système de catégorisation génocidaire.

"Studies of maritime worlds have grown in prevalence in recent decades, and this volume is a welcome addition to those concerned with the Indian Ocean, especially since it uses the region to think about processes involving medicine and healing that are usually confined to nations or empires. ... it works as a geographical catch-all for a wide-ranging subject, and by juxtaposing the work of diverse scholars in several fields of study the editors have created a very a stimulating conversation." (Harold J. Cook, The International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 28 (4), 2016)

• Introduction 1. An Insight into al-Razi's Extraordinary Theoretical and Practical Contributions for Developing Arthrology; Mahmud Angrini 2. Exchanges and Transformations in Gendered Medicine on the Maritime Silk Road: Evidence from the 13th Century Java Sea Wreck; Amanda Respess and Lisa C. Niziolek 3. Saints, Goddesses, and Serpents: Fertility Culture on the Malabar Coast (Circa 1500-1800); P.K. Yasser Arafath 4. The Circulation of Medical Knowledge through Tamil Manuscripts in Early Modern Paris, Halle, Copenhagen, and London; S. Jeyaseela Stephen 5. Medicine, Money, and the Making of the East India Company State: William Roxburgh in Madras, c. 1790; Minakshi Menon