TY - SER
KW - Social aspects
KW - Singapore
KW - Malaysia
KW - Leprosy control
KW - History
AU - Kah Seng L
AB - The book recounts the entangled histories of leprosy in colonial and postcolonial Malaya/Malaysia and Singapore—decades of heavy-handed biomedical policies and laws enacted in the name of modernity, science and development, interwoven with the personal accounts of those who were sent to the asylums. The leprosarium was a living hell for many. It is also no coincidence, the author argues, that the majority of patients were poor and working-class.
CN - 130.2 KAH b
CY - Petaling Jaya
LA - eng
N1 - Includes index, bibliography
N2 - The book recounts the entangled histories of leprosy in colonial and postcolonial Malaya/Malaysia and Singapore—decades of heavy-handed biomedical policies and laws enacted in the name of modernity, science and development, interwoven with the personal accounts of those who were sent to the asylums. The leprosarium was a living hell for many. It is also no coincidence, the author argues, that the majority of patients were poor and working-class.
PB - Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD)
PP - Petaling Jaya
PY - 2009
SN - 9789833782765
EP - 151 p.
TI - Making and unmaking the asylum : leprosy and modernity in Singapore and Malaysia
ER -