01164nas a2200169   4500000000100000008004100001653001200042653001200054653001100066653001700077100001500094245007600109300001200185490000800197050001500205520077400220       2013                            d10aleprosy10aHistory10aHawaii10aDisplacement1 aInglis K A00aMa‘i Lepera: Disease and Displacement in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i  a1507-080 v118  aJONES 20143 aLeprosy has been the focus of a number of important studies in the history of colonial public health, medicine, politics, and citizenship in recent years. Ma‘i Lepera makes a significant addition to this literature with a detailed examination of the nineteenth-century Hansen's disease outbreak on the Hawaiian islands between 1865 and 1900, and the settlement established by the Hawaiian Board of Health at the isolated Makanalua peninsula on the island of Molokai. Over a century, between seven and eight thousand leprosy sufferers, ninety percent of them native Hawaiians, were sent to the peninsula. This was a “natural prison,” surrounded on three sides by ocean and separated from the rest of the island by almost impassable and forbidding cliffs, or pali.