Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Describing, imagining and defining leprosy, 1770–1867
- 2 Scientists discuss the causes of leprosy, and the disease becomes a public issue in Britain and its empire, 1867–1898
- 3 The fear of degeneration: leprosy in the tropics and the metropolis at the fin de siècle
- 4 Segregation in the high imperial era: island leper colonies on Hawaii, at the Cape, in Australia and New Zealand
- 5 Concentrating and isolating racialised others, the diseased and the deviant: the idea of the colony in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- 6 Writers visiting leper colonies: Charles Warren Stoddard, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London, Graham Greene and Paul Theroux
- Postscript
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 July 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Describing, imagining and defining leprosy, 1770–1867
- 2 Scientists discuss the causes of leprosy, and the disease becomes a public issue in Britain and its empire, 1867–1898
- 3 The fear of degeneration: leprosy in the tropics and the metropolis at the fin de siècle
- 4 Segregation in the high imperial era: island leper colonies on Hawaii, at the Cape, in Australia and New Zealand
- 5 Concentrating and isolating racialised others, the diseased and the deviant: the idea of the colony in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- 6 Writers visiting leper colonies: Charles Warren Stoddard, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London, Graham Greene and Paul Theroux
- Postscript
- Index
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- Leprosy and EmpireA Medical and Cultural History, pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006