{"product_id":"colonizing-leprosy-michelle-t-moran-9780807858394","title":"Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States","description":"By comparing institutions in Hawai'i and Louisiana designed to incarcerate individuals with a highly stigmatized disease, \u003ci\u003eColonizing Leprosy\u003c\/i\u003e provides an innovative study of the complex relationship between U.S. imperialism and public health policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the Kalaupapa Settlement in Moloka'i and the U.S. National Leprosarium in Carville, Michelle Moran shows not only how public health policy emerged as a tool of empire in America's colonies, but also how imperial ideologies and racial attitudes shaped practices at home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough medical personnel at both sites considered leprosy a colonial disease requiring strict isolation, Moran demonstrates that they adapted regulations developed at one site for use at the other by changing rules to conform to ideas of how \"natives\" and \"Americans\" should be treated. By analyzing administrators' decisions, physicians' treatments, and patients' protests, Moran examines the roles that gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality played in shaping both public opinion and health policy. \u003ci\u003eColonizing Leprosy\u003c\/i\u003e makes an important contribution to an understanding of how imperial imperatives, public health practices, and patient activism informed debates over the constitution and health of American bodies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michelle T. Moran\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807858390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807858394\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.65w x 0.71d","brand":"Michelle T. Moran","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44227544154367,"sku":"9780807858394","price":37.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f40f752a-5718-4226-a2dd-b3780461b696.jpg?v=1692809261","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/colonizing-leprosy-michelle-t-moran-9780807858394","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}