Colonizing Leprosy - Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States - Paperback - 2007

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.
Year of publication: 2007
Pagination: 296 pages, 6 illustrations, 2 maps, notes, bibliography, index
Format: Paperback
Serie: Studies in Social Medicine