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- Title
LEPROSY'S TRANSFORMATION INTO A SYMBOL OF STIGMATIZATION.
- Authors
NAVON, LIORA
- Abstract
The article discusses the social aspects of leprosy, with a focus on the social stigmatization of the disease and the social isolation and ostracism of leprosy patients. Topics include a socio-historical analysis of literature on the history of leprosy, a communicable skin disease transmitted by the respiratory system which causes disfigurement; the social aspects of the medical symptoms and contagiousness of leprosy; and the compulsory segregation of leprosy patients in leper colonies and treatment facilities at the turn of the 20th century. Biblical references to the disease are also discussed.
- Subjects
HANSEN'S disease patients; HANSEN'S disease; SOCIAL stigma; COMMUNICABLE diseases -- Social aspects; HISTORY of Hansen's disease; SOCIAL isolation; COMMUNICABLE diseases; SOCIOHISTORICAL analysis; DISEASES in the Bible; SKIN diseases; HISTORY; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Korot / Qôrôt̲, 2011, Vol 21, p315
- ISSN
0023-4109
- Publication type
Article