Ebook: Disease Dispersion and Impact in the Indian Ocean World.

Views the study of disease as essential to understanding the key historical developments underpinning the foundation of contemporary IOW societies

Reveals a wide range of perceptions about disease etiologies and epidemiologies, and debates over the origin, dispersion and impact of disease form a central focus in these essays

Focuses on diseases that spread across time, space and cultures rather than on, for example, the large field of culture-specific diseases captured as culture-bound syndromes or folk illnesses