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Leprosy and Empire.

Publication: The Geographical Review
Publication Date: 01-APR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Leprosy and Empire.(Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History)(Book review)

Article Excerpt
LEPROSY AND EMPIRE: A Medical and Cultural History. By ROD EDMOND. x and 255 pp.; map, ills., notes, index. New York: Cambridge University Press. $104.00 (cloth), 2006. ISBN 0521685840.

Few diseases invoke the response that leprosy produces. Throughout history fear and revulsion have accompanied diagnosis of this disease and led to dire consequence for its victims. In biblical times lepers were seen as unclean, cast out of their community, and reduced to begging. In later times the disease has been correlated with race and the Other, resulting in the banishment of the victim to a life among other lepers and apart from the larger community. In Leprosy and Empire Rod Edmond explores the responses that leprosy and its victims have evoked throughout history and across the globe and how this illness "has...

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