Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History

by Rod Edmond and Edmond Rod

Book Overview

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. Beginning as a medical history, the book broadens into an examination of how Britain and its colonies responded to the believed spread of leprosy. Across the empire this involved isolating victims of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521123127
• ISBN13: 9780521123129
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"