Colonizing Leprosy - Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States

Informationen zum Autor Michelle T. Moran is associate professor of history at Montgomery College. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung By comparing institutions in Hawai'i and Louisiana designed to incarcerate individuals with a highly stigmatized disease! this work provides a study of the complex relationship between US imperialism and public health policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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• Authors: Michelle Moran, Michelle T Moran, Michelle T. Moran, Michelle Therese Moran
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.09.2007
• EAN: 9780807858394
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-5839-4
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Studies in Social Medicine (Pa; Studies in Social Medicine (Pa; Studies in Social Medicine
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous