TY - JOUR
KW - Singapore
KW - Oral history
KW - Malaysia
KW - leprosy
AU - Monnais L
AB - The strong point of this slim volume lies in the author Loh Kah Seng's choice to ground his work in oral history, specifically some 20 interviews with former leprosy sufferers having been forcibly interned at the Singapore Leprosy Relief Association (Silra) Home or in the ‘Valley of Hope’ (Sungai Buloh, Kuala Lumpur). Given that such isolation facilities are currently being transformed into homes, and that the inmates are theoretically being reintegrated into mainstream society, this volume helpfully sheds light on many unknown aspects in the modern history of leprosy, especially in Southeast Asia. Loh's book also nourishes our historical memory, and the research was suggested and financed by the International Leprosy Association's Global Project for the History of Medicine. This project, funded by the Nippon Foundation and based at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford, is currently developing a … 

BT - Social History of Medicine
C2 - UK
C6 - http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/1/174.short
CY - Oxford
DO - 10.1093/shm/hkq075
IS - 1
J2 - Soc Hist Med
LA - eng
M1 - 1
M3 - Book review
N2 - The strong point of this slim volume lies in the author Loh Kah Seng's choice to ground his work in oral history, specifically some 20 interviews with former leprosy sufferers having been forcibly interned at the Singapore Leprosy Relief Association (Silra) Home or in the ‘Valley of Hope’ (Sungai Buloh, Kuala Lumpur). Given that such isolation facilities are currently being transformed into homes, and that the inmates are theoretically being reintegrated into mainstream society, this volume helpfully sheds light on many unknown aspects in the modern history of leprosy, especially in Southeast Asia. Loh's book also nourishes our historical memory, and the research was suggested and financed by the International Leprosy Association's Global Project for the History of Medicine. This project, funded by the Nippon Foundation and based at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford, is currently developing a … 

PB - Oxford University Press 
PP - Oxford
PY - 2011
SP - 174
EP - 175
T2 - Social History of Medicine
TI - Loh Kah Seng, Making and Unmaking the Asylum. Leprosy and Modernity in Singapore and Malaysia
VL - 24
ER -