Leprosy, Racism, And Public Health: Social Policy In Chronic Disease Control

by Zachary Gussow

Overview

This volume focuses on leprosy in a country with which this 'tropical' disease is rarely associated in the professional or public mind; the United States. An important scholarly contribution where Gussow argues that academic neglect and absence of comparative studies of lepraphobia have been fuelled by default the myth that aversion to leprosy is and has been universal.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367152796
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/13/2023
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

PART 1 INTRODUCTION 1 Symbol and Disease PART 2 THE WESTERN WORLD IN TRANSITION: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 2 The Port City of New Orleans: A Necropolis 3 Endemicity in the United States: Leprosy in Louisiana 4 Norway: The Enlightened Kingdom 5 Hawaii: An Imperialist Solution PART 3 THE PERIOD OF ALARM: TURN OF THE CENTURY 6 Changing American Images of the Chinese 7 Beginnings of a U.S. National Leprosarium PART 4 THE LEPROSARIUM: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 8 The Carville Leprosarium: The Asylum Years, 1894 to Post-World War II 9 The National Hansen's Disease Center: New Managers and Old Habits PART 5 CONCLUSION 10 The Secularization of Leprosy

Editorial Reviews

On the international sociohistorical forces that have shaped both the values and the institutional climate in which leprosy has been imbedded. Of special interest to medical anthropologists. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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