01107nas a2200145   4500000000100000008004100001260002300042653001200065653002100077100001000098245009400108300000900202520073600211022001400947       2022                            d  bInforma UK Limited10aHistory10aCultural Studies1 aYoo K00aThe Crime of Leprosy: The Red Threat and U.S. Hansen’s Disease Policy in Cold War Korea  a1-213 a<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>
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