@book{20312,
  keywords = {History, China, leprosy, Stigma, Person affected by leprosy},
  author = {Leung AKC},
  title = {Leprosy in China : a history},
  abstract = {Li/lai/dafeng/mafeng: history of the conceptualization of a disease/category -- Etiology of the disease category: a history -- A cursed but redeemable body -- The dangerously contagious body: segregation in late imperial China -- The Chinese leper and the modern world -- Leprosy in the PRC.},
  year = {2009},
  journal = {Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University},
  pages = {373 p.},
  publisher = {Colombia University Press},
  address = {New York},
  isbn = {978-0231123006},
  url = {http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-12300-6/leprosy-in-china},
  note = {Angela Ki Che Leung is a research fellow at the Academia Sinica of Taipei and a professor of history at the National Taiwan University. Her primary focus is on the social history of medicine in late imperial China, and she heads a research group on the history of health and hygiene in modern Chinese-East Asian societies. Includes bibliographical references and index.},
  language = {eng},
}