Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States

by Michelle T. Moran

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807858390
• ISBN13: 9780807858394
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.2"