Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History by Rod Edmond

Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History

Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories

Rod Edmond

268 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history informative medium-paced
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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 refashioned in the modern colonial period...

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