TY - JOUR
KW - Infectious Diseases
AU - Bagcchi S
AB - Despite being a fictional work, in her book The Second Life of Mirielle West Amanda Skenandore has used her medical background as a registered nurse—and her storytelling skills as a writer—to describe the sorrows experienced by patients with leprosy who were quarantined at the Carville Leper Home, a hospital in Louisiana that used to provide quarantine and treatment services for leprosy in the USA throughout the 20th century. Currently the site has turned into the National Hansen's Disease Museum.
BT - The Lancet Infectious Diseases
DO - 10.1016/s1473-3099(21)00571-5
IS - 10
LA - eng
N2 - Despite being a fictional work, in her book The Second Life of Mirielle West Amanda Skenandore has used her medical background as a registered nurse—and her storytelling skills as a writer—to describe the sorrows experienced by patients with leprosy who were quarantined at the Carville Leper Home, a hospital in Louisiana that used to provide quarantine and treatment services for leprosy in the USA throughout the 20th century. Currently the site has turned into the National Hansen's Disease Museum.
PB - Elsevier BV
PY - 2021
EP - 1364
T2 - The Lancet Infectious Diseases
TI - Facing leprosy in the 1920s
VL - 21
SN - 1473-3099
ER -