TY - SER
KW - United States
KW - Person affected by leprosy
KW - leprosy
KW - History
KW - Colony
KW - Carville
AU - Ramirez J P
AB - Lying 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.
BT - Willie Morris books in memoir and biography
C6 - link to publishers website
C7 - Jose P. Ramirez; Foreword by James Carville
CN - 130.1 RAM 
CY - Mississippi
LA - eng
N2 - Lying 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.
PB - University Press of Mississippi
PP - Mississippi
PY - 2009
SN - 978-1604731194
EP - 220 p.
T2 - Willie Morris books in memoir and biography
TI - Squint : my journey with leprosy
UR - http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1133
ER -