Michelle T Moran

(Author)

Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United StatesPaperback, 10 September 2007

Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States
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Part of Series
Studies in Social Medicine
Part of Series
Studies in Social Medicine (Paperback)
Print Length
296 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Date Published
10 Sep 2007
ISBN-10
0807858390
ISBN-13
9780807858394

Description

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 policy emerged as a tool of empire in America's colonies, but also how imperial ideologies and racial attitudes shaped practices at home.

Although medical personnel at both sites considered leprosy a colonial disease requiring strict isolation, Moran demonstrates that they adapted regulations developed at one site for use at the other by changing rules to conform to ideas of how "natives" and "Americans" should be treated. By analyzing administrators' decisions, physicians' treatments, and patients' protests, Moran examines the roles that gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality played in shaping both public opinion and health policy. Colonizing Leprosy makes an important contribution to an understanding of how imperial imperatives, public health practices, and patient activism informed debates over the constitution and health of American bodies.

Product Details

Author:
Michelle T Moran
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
10 September 2007
Dimensions:
23.37 x 16.89 x 1.8 cm
ISBN-10:
0807858390
ISBN-13:
9780807858394
Language:
English
Location:
Chapel Hill
Pages:
296
Weight:
303.91 gm

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