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Kingdom of the sick : a history of leprosy and Japan / Susan L. Burns.
LIBRA RC154.7.J3 B87 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burns, Susan L., 1958- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leprosy--Japan--History--20th century.
- Leprosy.
- Leprosy--Patients--Japan--History--20th century.
- Leprosy--Government policy--Japan--History--20th century.
- Leprosy--Government policy.
- Leprosy--Patients.
- History.
- Japan.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 334 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- The geography of exclusion: rai in premodern Japan
- From "bad karma" to "bad blood" : medicalizing rai in early modern Japan
- Rethinking leprosy in Meiji Japan
- Between the global and the local : Japan's 1907 leprosy law
- Not quite total institutions : the public sanitaria and patient life
- The national culture of leprosy prevention
- The sanitaria in the time of national emergency
- Leprosy in postwar Japan : biological citizenship and democratization.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780824879013
- 0824879015
- OCLC:
- 1052872951
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