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Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History - Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
Edmond, Rod (University of Kent, Canterbury)
Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History - Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
Edmond, Rod (University of Kent, Canterbury)
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.
268 pages, 10 b/w illus.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | November 12, 2009 |
ISBN13 | 9780521123129 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 268 |
Dimensions | 155 × 228 × 18 mm · 422 g |
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