00955nam a2200217   4500000000100000008004100001260004900042653001800091653003100109653001200140653001200152653001100164653001300175100001600188245003700204856004500241300001100286050001500297520040600312020001900718       2009                            d  bUniversity Press of MississippiaMississippi10aUnited States10aPerson affected by leprosy10aleprosy10aHistory10aColony10aCarville1 aRamirez J P00aSquint : my journey with leprosy  uhttp://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1133  a220 p.  a130.1 RAM 3 aLying in a hospital bed, José P. Ramirez, Jr. (b. 1948) almost lost everything because of a misunderstood disease. When the health department doctor gave him the Handbook for Persons with Leprosy, Ramirez learned his fate. Such a diagnosis in 1968 meant exile and hospitalization in the only leprosarium in the continental United States--Carville, Louisiana, 750 miles from his home in Laredo, Texas.  a978-1604731194