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By Dorothy McMenamin

the iconic results of leprosy are nonetheless glaring in a variety of components of the realm. This e-book info the non-public reports of individuals in Fiji, New Caledonia, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu, the vast majority of whom gotten smaller leprosy as youngsters. It recounts how the sufferers have been topic to lengthy isolation in a number of leprosaria because the first powerful treatment for leprosy simply grew to become on hand after 1949. Oral histories are applied and verbatim extracts exhibit the extent of stigma skilled via those adolescents. themes coated comprise the precise nature of the prognosis, elimination from one’s relatives, the event of isolation, and the response of family members and villages upon the individual’s go back to neighborhood life.

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