Kingdom of the sick : a history of leprosy and Japan /

In this groundbreaking work, Susan L. Burns examines the history of leprosy in Japan from medieval times until the present. At the center of Kingdom of the Sick is the rise of Japan's system of national leprosy sanitaria, which today continue to house more than 1,500 former patients, many of wh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burns, Susan L., 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2019]
Temas:
1900-1999
Leprosy > Japan > History > 20th century.
Leprosy > Patients > Japan > History > 20th century.
Leprosy > Government policy > Japan > History > 20th century.
Leprosy > history
Quarantine > history
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Hospitals, Isolation > history
Hospitals, Chronic Disease > history
Social Stigma
History, 20th Century
Lèpre > Japon > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Lépreux > Japon > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Lèpre > Politique gouvernementale > Japon > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
Leprosy
Leprosy > Government policy
Leprosy > Patients
Japan
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The geography of exclusion: rai in premodern Japan
  • From "bad karma" to "bad blood" : medicalizing rai in early modern Japan
  • Rethinking leprosy in Meiji Japan
  • Between the global and the local : Japan's 1907 leprosy law
  • Not quite total institutions : the public sanitaria and patient life
  • The national culture of leprosy prevention
  • The sanitaria in the time of national emergency
  • Leprosy in postwar Japan : biological citizenship and democratization.

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