'Snelders provides a needed corrective to the historiography concerning how Western science began to see leprosy as a colonial problem. His monograph is one of very few that search for the racialized roots of leprosy discourse as far back as the eighteenth century. [.] Snelders's longue duree study greatly expands historians' understanding of leprosy in Suriname as a microcosm of colonialism's racial, social and administrative structures.'
Kristen Block, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Social History of Medicine, vol 33, no 3, August 2018