Titlebook: Leprosy in Colonial South India; Medicine and Confine Jane Buckingham Book 2002 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limi

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Introduction,contract and is rarely fatal. The exact mechanisms for the communication of leprosy are still unknown, though it is believed that while bacteria can be discharged through leprous ulcers, the principal mode of transmission is by coughing and sneezing. Contrary to popular belief, leprosy is neither se

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Indian and British Concepts of Leprosy and of the Leprosy Sufferer,gs of leprosy increasingly gave way to a more modern scientific concept of the disease and there were considerable changes in the British perception of the leprosy sufferer. In the early nineteenthcentury, a leprosy sufferer was typically understood by the British in India to be Indian or Eurasian,

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Patient or Prisoner? Leprosy Sufferers in British Institutional Care,nditions and more as characteristics which unite those living ‘in the margins of the community’ and mark them out for exclusion.. In nineteenth-century colonial south India, the leprosy sufferer carried not only the ancient stigma of leprosy but also, to varying degrees, the nineteenth-century stigm

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Colonial Medicine in the Indigenous Context,ement of the medical officers directly involved in the care of leprosy sufferers. There was some monitoring by the medical board and presidency government, but little interference. It was not until the 1860s that the attention of the Home government and Government of India was drawn to leprosy treat

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Leprosy Treatment: Indigenous and British Approaches,ts, it remained so until the discovery of Dapsone in the 1940s. The lack of any specific British treatment for leprosy was, particularly prior to the publication of Danielssen and Boeck’s findings in 1848, partly due to uncertainty as to what actually constituted the disease, and, until Hansen’s dis

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The Politics of Leprosy Control,ly by political concerns. During the 1860s the investigation of leprosy was used by the Royal College of Physicians to bolster its emerging professional status. However, the testing of Beauperthuy’s cashew nut oil treatment in the early 1870s made clear the limits of the Royal College of Physicians’