Struggling against leprosy: physicians, medicine, and society in Colombia, 1880-1940
This study examines the constructions of leprosy in Colombia from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s. In the nineteenth century Colombian physicians constructed leprosy as highly infectious and threatening and adopted rigid segregation of “lepers” to prevent its propagation. At the same time,...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39087 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08082007-115318/ |