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The First International Leprosy Conference, Berlin, 1897: the politics of segregation

The present paper examines the first attempts to internationalise the problem of leprosy, a subject hitherto overlooked by historians of imperialism and disease. The last decade of the nineteenth century saw many in the 'civilised countries' of the imperialist West gripped by a paranoia about an inv...

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Main Author: Shubhada S. Pandya
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz 2003-01-01
Series:História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-59702003000400008&tlng=en
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