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Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History (Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories)
Leprosy and Empire A Medical and Cultural History - Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
Author: Rod Edmond
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 colon...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521123129
ISBN-10: 0521123127
Publication Date: 11/12/2009
Pages: 268
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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