Zachary Gussow

Leprosy, Racism, And Public Health

Social Policy In Chronic Disease Control

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 560g
• ISBN-13: 9780367002923
• ISBN-10: 0367002922
• Artikelnr.: 63086147

Autorenporträt

Zachary Gussow

Inhaltsangabe

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