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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"leprosarium"”.
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Stories from Both Sides of the Hedge: A History of and Digital Exhibit for the National Hansen's Disease Museum
<p>The national leprosarium of the United States, located in Carville, Louisiana, started as the Louisiana Leper Home in 1894. Since Louisiana contained the largest endemic population in the contiguous United States of people suffering from leprosy, or Hansen’s disease as it would later be known, …
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A comparison of the quality of life between survivors of leprosy living in a leprosarium and those re-integrated in their communities in the southern region of Malawi
… by survivors of leprosy living in the remaining leprosarium and those reintegrated into their communities in the southern region of Malawi.
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Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism, Patients, and the Politics of Public Health in Hawai'i and Louisiana
… in Moloka'i, Hawai'i, and the U.S. National Leprosarium in Carville, Louisiana. An examination of the patient communities at these two sites connects critical theory to human practice by paying close attention to the ways in which individuals confined at these institutions challenged …
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Humeral torsion and activity-related change in the human upper limb and pectoral girdle. A biomechanical investigation and social implications.
… Priory of St. Andrew, Fishergate,York and the leprosarium of Sts. James and Mary Magdalene, Chichester, the modern cadaver-based Terry collection and non-human primates, Gorilla sp., Pan sp., Pongo sp., and Macaca sp.. Measurement of the humeral torsion angle and external measurements and …