This volume focuses on leprosy in a country with which this 'tropical' disease is rarely associated in the professional or public mind; the United States. An important scholarly contribution where Gussow argues that academic neglect and absence of comparative studies of lepraphobia have been fuelled by default the myth that aversion to leprosy is and has been universal.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0367002922
ISBN13:9780367002923
Release Date:December 2021
Publisher:Routledge
Length:280 Pages
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