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Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States (Studies in Social ...
Michelle T. Moran

The University of North Carolina Press, 2007

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 ...