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Leprosy and Empire : A Medical and Cultural History
ISBN: 9780521123129 | 0521123127
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 11/12/2009
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An interdisciplinary study of why a disease that is so difficult to catch has caused such alarm. It examines how the fear of leprosy was part of nineteenth-century imperial expansion, as colonial officials and missionaries were thought exposed to the risk of infection, which might be carried back to Britain.
An innovative, interdisciplinary study of why leprosy, a disease with a very low level of infection, has repeatedly provoked revulsion and fear. Rod Edmond explores, in particular, how these reactions were refa... MORE
An innovative, interdisciplinary study of why leprosy, a disease with a very low level of infection, has repeatedly provoked revulsion and fear. Rod Edmond explores, in particular, how these reactions were refa... MORE
| Introduction | |
| Describing, imagining and defining leprosy 1770-1867 | |
| Scientists discuss the causes of leprosy, and the disease becomes a public issue in Britain and its empire 1867-1898 | |
| The fear of degeneration: leprosy in the tropics and the metropolis at the fin de siecle | |
| Segregation in the high imperial era: island leper colonies on Hawaii, at the Cape, in Australia and New Zealand | |
| Concentrating and is... MORE | |
| Writers visiting leper colonies: Charles Warren Stoddard, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London, Graham Greene and Paul Theroux | |
| Postscript | |
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