Leprosy and Empire

A Medical and Cultural History

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

Av Canterbury) Edmond, Rod (University of Kent, Rod Edmond

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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.

Produktinformation

  • Utgivningsdatum2006-11-30
  • Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
  • Vikt576 g
  • FormatInbunden
  • SpråkEngelska
  • SerieCambridge Social and Cultural Histories
  • Antal sidor266
  • FörlagCambridge University Press
  • ISBN9780521865845

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