"The Path of the Destroyer"
Author: Arthur Albert St. M. Mouritz
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 466
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Arthur Albert St. M. Mouritz
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 466
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 30
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Committee Serial No. 4.
Author: Hawaii. Board of Health
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Published: 1886
Total Pages: 514
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Public Health Service
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kerri A. Inglis
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2013-01-22
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0824865790
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ma‘i Lepera attempts to recover Hawaiian voices at a significant moment in Hawai‘i’s history. It takes an unprecedented 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 Using traditional and nontraditional sources, published and unpublished, it tells the story of a disease, a society’s reaction to it, and the consequences of the experience for Hawai‘i and its people. Over a span of thirty-four years more than five thousand people were sent to a leprosy settlement on the remote peninsula in north Moloka‘i traditionally known as Makanalua. Their story has seldom been told despite the hundreds of letters they wrote to families, friends, and the Board of Health, as well as to Hawaiian-language newspapers, detailing their concerns at the settlement as they struggled to retain their humanity in the face of ma‘i lepera. Many remained politically active and, at times, defiant, resisting authority and challenging policies. As much as they suffered, the Kānaka Maoli of Makanalua established new bonds and cared for one another in ways that have been largely overlooked in popular histories describing leprosy in Hawai‘i. Although Ma‘i Lepera is primarily a social history of disease and medicine, it offers compelling evidence of how leprosy and its treatment altered Hawaiian perceptions and identities. It changed how Kānaka Maoli viewed themselves: By the end of the nineteenth century, the “diseased” had become a cultural “other” to the healthy Hawaiian. Moreover, it reinforced colonial ideology and furthered the use of both biomedical practices and disease as tools of colonization. Ma‘i Lepera will be of significant interest to students and scholars of Hawai‘i and medical history and historical and medical anthropology. Given its accessible style, this book will also appeal to general readers who wish to know more about the Kānaka Maoli who contracted leprosy—their connectedness to each other, their families, their islands, and their nation—and how leprosy came to affect those connections and their lives.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Health and National Quarantine
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 242
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ted Gugelyk
Publisher: First Edition Design Pub.
Published: 2013-02-18
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 1622872630
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is about the stigma of leprosy in Hawaii and how sick Hawaiian people were arrested and imprisoned for life because of their disease. It is a book about the fear of the unknown, pandemic, fear of sick people who cannot be cured quickly, or at all. It could happen again, mandatory isolation imposed as a Public Health policy for diseases not readily cured.
Author: Frederick Ludwig Hoffman
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 34
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Adria L. Imada
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2022-02-01
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0520975200
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What was the longest and harshest medical quarantine in modern history, and how did people survive it? In Hawaiʻi beginning in 1866, men, women, and children suspected of having leprosy were removed from their families. Most were sentenced over the next century to lifelong exile at an isolated settlement. Thousands of photographs taken of their skin provided forceful, if conflicting, evidence of disease and disability for colonial health agents. And yet among these exiled people, a competing knowledge system of kinship and collectivity emerged during their incarceration. This book shows how they pieced together their own intimate archives of care and companionship through unanticipated adaptations of photography.
Author: Michelle T. Moran
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2012-09-01
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1469606739
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →By comparing institutions in Hawai'i and Louisiana designed to incarcerate individuals with a highly stigmatized disease, Colonizing Leprosy 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. Although 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. Colonizing Leprosy 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.