New PDF release: Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History

By Rod Edmond

ISBN-10: 0521123127

ISBN-13: 9780521123129

ISBN-10: 0521865840

ISBN-13: 9780521865845

An leading edge, interdisciplinary research of why leprosy, a ailment with a truly low point of an infection, has many times provoked revulsion and worry. Rod Edmond explores, particularly, how those reactions have been refashioned within the glossy colonial interval. starting as a clinical historical past, the publication broadens into an exam of the way Britain and its colonies answered to the believed unfold of leprosy. around the empire this concerned keeping apart sufferers of the ailment in 'colonies', frequently on offshore islands. dialogue of the segregation of lepers is then prolonged to analogous examples of this tradition, which, it truly is argued, has been a necessary a part of the repertoire of colonialism within the sleek interval. The ebook additionally examines literary representations of leprosy in Romantic, Victorian and twentieth-century writing, and concludes with a dialogue of traveller-writers corresponding to R. L. Stevenson and Graham Greene who defined and fictionalised their adventure of staying in a leper colony.

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