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Leprosy and empire a medical and cultural history

An interdisciplinary study of why a disease that is so difficult to catch has caused such alarm. It examines how the fear of leprosy was part of nineteenth-century imperial expansion, as colonial officials and missionaries were thought exposed to the risk of infection, which might be carried back to Britain.

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  • "An interdisciplinary study of why a disease that is so difficult to catch has caused such alarm. It examines how the fear of leprosy was part of nineteenth-century imperial expansion, as colonial officials and missionaries were thought exposed to the risk of infection, which might be carried back to Britain."@en

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  • "Leprosy and empire a medical and cultural history"
  • "Leprosy and empire : a medical and cultural history"
  • "Leprosy and Empire A Medical and Cultural History"
  • "Leprosy and Empire : a medical and cultural history"