@article{96626,
  keywords = {History, Cultural Studies},
  author = {Yoo K},
  title = {The Crime of Leprosy: The Red Threat and U.S. Hansen’s Disease Policy in Cold War Korea},
  abstract = {<p>This article examines how and why Hansen’s disease (leprosy) patients in South Korea emerged as a Cold War ideological battleground. Against the backdrop of U.S. wars of intervention in Asia, I argue that Cold War narratives of contagion used medical terms to conflate “infectious” ideologies and Hansen’s disease. Through reading&nbsp;<em>Litany of Hope</em>&nbsp;(1962), a film produced by the United States Information Service and loosely based on the life of Korean poet and former Hansen’s disease patient Han Ha-un, I analyze how U.S. Cold War ideology characterized Hansen’s disease patients in South Korea as&nbsp;<em>recuperable</em>&nbsp;internal enemies in need of humanitarian medical intervention.</p>
},
  year = {2022},
  journal = {Amerasia Journal},
  pages = {1-21},
  publisher = {Informa UK Limited},
  issn = {0044-7471},
  doi = {10.1080/00447471.2022.2036536},
  language = {eng},
}