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Maʻi lepera

Inglis, Kerri A.,

Maʻi lepera disease and displacement in nineteenth-century Hawaiʻi / [electronic resource] : Kerri A. Inglis. - Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (xvii, 268 pages :) illustrations, maps ;

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

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.

9780824865795


Leprosy--Patients--Social conditions.--Hawaii--Kalaupapa


Kalaupapa (Hawaii)--History--19th century.


Electronic books.

RC154.5.H32 / K345 2013

362.1969/98