Jane Buckingham is second editor and has published a chapter in the recently released edited collection: Social Aspects of Health, Medicine and Disease in the Colonial and Post-colonial Era.
Published by Manohar, one of the most important Indian publishers of new research, this collection represents a genuinely interdisciplinary and international collaboration.
The volume is part of a series initiated by Maurits S. Hassankhan of Anton de Kom University of Suriname. It brings together scholars from the Caribbean, Europe, and the Pacific to explore colonial and post-colonial experience of health and disease in cultures shaped by histories of slavery and indentured labour.
Jane had a significant role in the decision to include a health volume in the series and in shaping the content. Her primary role within the publication was to provide substantial editorial guidance and to bring a Pacific health history perspective to the collection.
Her chapter, ‘Disability Leprosy and Plantation Health among Indian Indentured Labourers’ investigates the disabling effects of leprosy and of mental illness among Indians transported to work as indentured labourers on sugar plantations in colonial Fiji.
Publication with Manohar has ensured that the new research by local scholars which this series is intended to develop is accessible in India and the Caribbean.
