Leprosy and Empire : A Medical and Cultural History (Paperback)

Introduction; 1. Describing, imagining and defining leprosy 1770?1867; 2. Scientists discuss the causes of leprosy, and the disease becomes a public issue in Britain and its empire 1867?98; 3. The fear of degeneration: leprosy in the tropics and the metropolis at the fin de siecle; 4. Segregation in the high imperial era: island leper colonies on Hawaii, at the Cape, in Australia and New Zealand; 5. Concentrating and isolating racialised others, the diseased and the deviant: the idea of the colony in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; 6. Writers visiting leper colonies: Charles Warren Stoddard, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London, Graham Greene and Paul Theroux; Postscript.