Leprosy and Empire - A Medical and Cultural History

Informationen zum Autor Rod Edmond is Professor of Modern Literature and Cultural History at the University of Kent. His previous publications include Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin (1997)! and! as co-editor with Vanessa Smith! Islands in History and Representation (2003). Klappentext Innovative! interdisciplinary study of the refashioning of reactions to leprosy in the modern colonial period. Zusammenfassung An interdisciplinary study of why a disease that is so difficult to catch has caused such alarm. It examines how the fear of leprosy was part of nineteenth-century imperial expansion! as colonial officials and missionaries were thought exposed to the risk of infection! which might be carried back to Britain. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Describing, imagining and defining leprosy 1770-1867; 2. Scientists discuss the causes of leprosy, and the disease becomes a public issue in Britain and its empire 1867-98; 3. The fear of degeneration: leprosy in the tropics and the metropolis at the fin de siecle; 4. Segregation in the high imperial era: island leper colonies on Hawaii, at the Cape, in Australia and New Zealand; 5. Concentrating and isolating racialised others, the diseased and the deviant: the idea of the colony in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; 6. Writers visiting leper colonies: Charles Warren Stoddard, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London, Graham Greene and Paul Theroux; Postscript.

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• Authors: Rod Edmond, Rod (University of Kent Edmond, Edmond Rod, Edmond Rod
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521123129
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12312-9
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories; Cambridge Social and Cultural; Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; British Empire, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / History, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, History of Medicine, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism