Leprosy

Fumihiko Takayama. The Last and Longest Mile: Yohei Sasakawa's Struggle to Eliminate Leprosy. London: Hurst & Company, 2021. Illustrations. xiv + 268 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78738-340-1. 

Jo Robertson. The International Campaign against Leprosy: 1948-2005. London: Hurst Publishers, 2021. Tables. 304 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78738-549-8.

Reviewed by Susan L. Burns (The University of Chicago) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (September, 2022) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

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Leo van Bergen. Uncertainty, Anxiety, Frugality: Dealing with Leprosy in the Dutch East Indies, 1816-1942. History of Medicine in Southeast Asia Series. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2018. 316 pp. $36.00 (paper), ISBN 978-981-4722-83-4.

Reviewed by Charmaine Robson (University of New South Wales) Published on H-Disability (October, 2021) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Susan L. Burns. Kingdom of the Sick: A History of Leprosy and Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019. 344 pp. $68.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8248-7901-3.

Reviewed by Julia Yongue (Hosei University) Published on H-Japan (November, 2019) Commissioned by Martha Chaiklin

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Rod Edmond. Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. x + 255 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-86584-5.

Reviewed by Harriet Deacon (Department of Historical Studies and AIDS and Society Research Unit, University of Cape Town) Published on H-SAfrica (October, 2007)

Jane Buckingham. Leprosy in Colonial South India: Medicine and Confinement. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. xi + 236 pp. $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-333-92622-2.

Reviewed by Pratik Chakrabarti (Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford) Published on H-Asia (May, 2004)

Confinements and Negotiations