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Colonizing Leprosy Michelle T. Moran

Colonizing Leprosy By Michelle T. Moran

Colonizing Leprosy by Michelle T. Moran


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By comparing institutions in Hawai'i and Louisiana designed to incarcerate individuals with a highly stigmatized disease, this work provides a study of the complex relationship between US imperialism and public health policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States by Michelle T. Moran

By comparing institutions in Hawai'i and Louisiana designed to incarcerate individuals with a highly stigmatized disease, Colonizing Leprosy provides an innovative study of the complex relationship between U.S. imperialism and public health policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the Kalaupapa Settlement in Moloka'i and the U.S. National Leprosarium in Carville, Michelle Moran shows not only how public health policy emerged as a tool of empire in America's colonies, but also how imperial ideologies and racial attitudes shaped practices at home. Although medical personnel at both sites considered leprosy a colonial disease requiring strict isolation, Moran demonstrates that they adapted regulations developed at one site for use at the other by changing rules to conform to ideas of how natives and Americans should be treated. By analyzing administrators' decisions, physicians' treatments, and patients' protests, Moran examines the roles that gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality played in shaping both public opinion and health policy. Colonizing Leprosy makes an important contribution to an understanding of how imperial imperatives, public health practices, and patient activism informed debates over the constitution and health of American bodies.

Colonizing Leprosy Reviews

A scholarly tour de force, well written and beautifully documented, Colonizing Leprosy is a superb work. Bravo! - Howard Markel, director, Center for the History of Medicine, The University of Michigan

About Michelle T. Moran

MICHELLE T. MORAN teaches in the Core Humanities Program and the Department of History at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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CIN0807858390G
9780807858394
0807858390
Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States by Michelle T. Moran
Used - Good
Paperback
The University of North Carolina Press
2007-09-10
296
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