Loathsome No Longer. Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) In Queensland 1850-1975
Ree Gerald Hugo
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Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Historical Society Of The Northern Territory
Publisher Place: Darwin
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition: First Edition
Description: ublishers Description: This book is a narrative, not an analysis or scientific history, nor a sociological dissertation about how a disease affected over a thousand people in Queensland between 1850 and 1975. During the same period, tens of thousands of Queenslanders died of tuberculosis, a highly infectious disease, far more lethal than Hansen's disease. The narrative has three important themes - unwelcome but unavoidable vagabonds repeatedly encountered along the path: racism, authoritarianism and institutionalisation.
ISBN: 9781925167474
(165867)
