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Owing to the Indian Ocean’s vast network of maritime connections, local medical knowledge and medicines have spread across the sea for centuries.1 The circulation of people, goods, and ideas has also facilitated the diffusion of disease,2 a distribution cleverly described as a “Swahilian swap of pathogens” by Howard Phillips in his key note lecture given at the “Histories of Medicine in the Indian Ocean World” conference (Montreal, April 26–27, 2013), which initiated the publication of this book. This exchange of people and pathogens is also the focus of David Arnold’s3 seminal article, “The Indian Ocean as a disease zone, 1500–1950,” on the transmission of cholera, plague, smallpox, and influenza in the region.
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Jansen, K.A. (2016). Tropical Disease and the Making of France in Réunion. In: Winterbottom, A., Tesfaye, F. (eds) Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World. Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137567581_6
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