Kingdom of the Sick : : A History of Leprosy and Japan / / Susan L. Burns.
In this groundbreaking work, Susan L. Burns examines the history of leprosy in Japan from medieval times until the present. At the center of Kingdom of the Sick is the rise of Japan's system of national leprosy sanitaria, which today continue to house more than 1,500 former patients, many of wh...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 18 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Geography of Exclusion: Rai in Premodern Japan
- Chapter 2. From "Bad Karma" to "Bad Blood": Medicalizing Rai in Early Modern Japan
- Chapter 3. Rethinking Leprosy in Meiji Japan
- Chapter 4. Between the Global and the Local: Japan's 1907Leprosy Law
- Chapter 5. Not Quite Total Institutions: The Public Sanitaria and Patient Life
- Chapter 6. The National Culture of Leprosy Prevention
- Chapter 7. The Sanitaria in the Time of National Emergency
- Chapter 8. Leprosy in Postwar Japan: Biological Citizenship and Democratization
- Conclusion: Biological Citizenship and the Afterlife of Quarantine
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index