Mai Lepera : Disease and Displacement in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii /

This book attempts to recover Hawaiian voices at a significant moment in Hawai'i's history. It takes a look at the Hansen's disease outbreak (1865-1900) almost exclusively from the perspective of "patients," ninety percent of whom were Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian). Using t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Inglis, Kerri A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Soziale Situation
Leprakranker
Leprosy > Patients > Social conditions.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Medecine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Social Conditions > history
History, 19th Century
Leprosy > history
Leprosy > Patients > Hawaii > Kalaupapa > Social conditions.
Hawaii
Hawaii > Kalaupapa.
Hawaii.
Kalaupapa (Hawaii) > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A land and a disease set apart
  • The criminalization of leprosy in Hawaiʻi
  • Accommodation, adaptation, and resistance to leprosy and the law
  • Living with disease and death at Makanalua
  • The journey into exile
  • Maʻi hoʻokaʻawale : the disease that separates.

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