Leprosy In China

Author : Angela Ki Che Leung
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231123000
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leprosy in China written by Angela Ki Che Leung and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angela Ki Che Leung's meticulous study begins with the classical annals of the imperial era, which contain the first descriptions of a feared and stigmatized disorder modern researchers now identify as leprosy. She then tracks the relationship between the disease and China's social and political spheres (theories of contagion prompted community and statewide efforts at segregation); religious traditions (Buddhism and Daoism ascribed redemptive meaning to those suffering from the disease), and evolving medical discourse (Chinese doctors have contested the disease's etiology for centuries). Leprosy even pops up in Chinese folklore, attributing the spread of the contagion to contact with immoral women. Leung next places the history of leprosy into a global context of colonialism, racial politics, and "imperial danger." A perceived global pandemic in the late nineteenth century seemed to confirm Westerners' fears that Chinese immigration threatened public health. Therefore battling to contain, if not eliminate, the disease became a central mission of the modernizing, state-building projects of the late Qing empire, the nationalist government of the first half of the twentieth century, and the People's Republic of China. Stamping out the curse of leprosy was the first step toward achieving "hygienic modernity" and erasing the cultural and economic backwardness associated with the disease. Leung's final move connects China's experience with leprosy to a larger history of public health and biomedical regimes of power, exploring the cultural and political implications of China's Sino-Western approach to the disease.

Author : American Leprosy Missions
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's Leprosy written by American Leprosy Missions and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Hamilton Jefferys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diseases of China, including Formosa and Korea written by William Hamilton Jefferys and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : American Leprosy Missions
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013576065
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's Leprosy written by American Leprosy Missions and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : William Hamilton Jefferys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diseases of China, Including Formosa and Korea written by William Hamilton Jefferys and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lee Sjoerds Huizenga
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unclean! Unclean! Or, Glimpses of the Land where Leprosy Thrives written by Lee Sjoerds Huizenga and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pam Fessler
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631495046
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice written by Pam Fessler and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unknown story of the only leprosy colony in the continental United States, and the thousands of Americans who were exiled—hidden away with their “shameful” disease. The Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans curls around an old sugar plantation that long housed one of America’s most painful secrets. Locals knew it as Carville, the site of the only leprosy colony in the continental United States, where generations of afflicted Americans were isolated—often against their will and until their deaths. Following the trail of an unexpected family connection, acclaimed journalist Pam Fessler has unearthed the lost world of the patients, nurses, doctors, and researchers at Carville who struggled for over a century to eradicate Hansen’s disease, the modern name for leprosy. Amid widespread public anxiety about foreign contamination and contagion, patients were deprived of basic rights—denied the right to vote, restricted from leaving Carville, and often forbidden from contact with their own parents or children. Neighbors fretted over their presence and newspapers warned of their dangerous condition, which was seen as a biblical “curse” rather than a medical diagnosis. Though shunned by their fellow Americans, patients surprisingly made Carville more a refuge than a prison. Many carved out meaningful lives, building a vibrant community and finding solace, brotherhood, and even love behind the barbed-wire fence that surrounded them. Among the memorable figures we meet in Fessler’s masterful narrative are John Early, a pioneering crusader for patients’ rights, and the unlucky Landry siblings—all five of whom eventually called Carville home—as well as a butcher from New York, a 19-year-old debutante from New Orleans, and a pharmacist from Texas who became the voice of Carville around the world. Though Jim Crow reigned in the South and racial animus prevailed elsewhere, Carville took in people of all faiths, colors, and backgrounds. Aided by their heroic caretakers, patients rallied to find a cure for Hansen’s disease and to fight the insidious stigma that surrounded it. Weaving together a wealth of archival material with original interviews as well as firsthand accounts from her own family, Fessler has created an enthralling account of a lost American history. In our new age of infectious disease, Carville’s Cure demonstrates the necessity of combating misinformation and stigma if we hope to control the spread of illness without demonizing victims and needlessly destroying lives.

Author : James Laidlaw Maxwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The diseases of China written by James Laidlaw Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Buckingham
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403932735
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leprosy in Colonial South India written by J. Buckingham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-12-18 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leprosy is a neglected topic in the burgeoning field of the history of medicine and the colonized body. Leprosy in Colonial South India is not only a history of an intriguing and dramatic endemic disease, it is a history of colonial power in nineteenth-century British India as seen through the lens of British medical and legal encounters with leprosy and its sufferers in south India. Leprosy in Colonial South India offers a detailed examination of the contribution of leprosy treatment and legislative measures to negotiated relationships between indigenous and British medicine and the colonial impact on indigenous class formation, while asserting the agency of the poor and vagrant leprous classes in their own history.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prize Essays on Leprosy written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: