TY - SER
KW - History
KW - China
KW - leprosy
KW - Stigma
KW - Person affected by leprosy
AU - Leung AKC
AB - 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.
BT - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
C6 - link to publisher
C7 - Angela Ki Che Leung
CN - 130.1 LEU b
CY - New York
LA - eng
N1 - 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.
N2 - 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.
PB - Colombia University Press
PP - New York
PY - 2009
SN - 978-0231123006
EP - 373 p.
T2 - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
TI - Leprosy in China : a history
UR - http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-12300-6/leprosy-in-china
ER -