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Out of the shadow of leprosy [electronic resource] : the Carville letters and stories of the Landry family / Claire Manes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manes, Claire, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leprosy--Patients--Louisiana--Carville--Correspondence.
- Leprosy.
- Leprosy--Hospitals--Louisiana--Carville--History--Sources.
- National Hansen's Disease Programs (U.S.)--History.
- National Hansen's Disease Programs (U.S.).
- Landry, Edmond, 1891-1932.
- Landry, Edmond.
- Landrey Family.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (228 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 1924 when thirty-two-year-old Edmond Landry kissed his family good-bye and left for the leprosarium in Carville, Louisiana, leprosy, now referred to as Hansen's Disease, stigmatized and disfigured but did not kill. Those with leprosy were incarcerated in the federal hospital and isolated from family and community. Phones were unavailable, transportation was precarious, and fear was rampant. Edmond entered the hospital (as did his four other siblings), but he did not surrender to his fate. He fought with his pen and his limited energy to stay connected to his family and to improve living
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; A Chronology of Edmond Landry's Life 1891-1932; Introduction: A Family and a Disease; Chapter 1 Finding Carville, Finding Family; Chapter 2 Edmond: Anticipating a Bright Future; Chapter 3 Moving into the Shadow: Life at Home; Chapter 4 In Leprosy's Shadow: Life in Carville; Chapter 5 Edmond's Letters from Carville; Chapter 6 Out of the Shadow: Finding Edmond; Chapter 7 Lives Remembered and Restored; Chapter 8 Epilogue: My Journey out of the Shadow; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W
- Notes:
- Includes biographical information on Edmond Landry and correspondence, mostly his.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 1-62103-942-0
- OCLC:
- 815836042
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