Maʻi lepera : disease and displacement in nineteenth-century Hawaiʻi / Kerri A. Inglis.

  • Inglis, Kerri A.
Date:
[2013]
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Publication/Creation

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2013]

Physical description

xvii, 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and index.

Contents

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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    History of Medicine
    FIF.81.AA8
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ISBN

  • 9780824834845
  • 0824834844
  • 9780824836351
  • 0824836359