01075nas a2200169   4500000000100000008004100001100001800042700001500060700001000075700001400085700001700099245006100116300001200177490000700189520069500196022001400891       2018                            d1 aPawlikowski J1 aBanasiuk J1 aSak J1 aJojczuk M1 aGrzybowski A00aDamien de Veuster (1840-1889): A life devoted to lepers.  a680-6850 v363 a<p>Father Damien de Veuster, or Saint Damien of Molokai (1840-1889), was one of the pioneers of the holistic approach to care provision for leprosy patients and contributed to the overcoming of the patients' social stigmatization. He devoted his life to the lepers living in America's only leper colony, on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, where people with leprosy were required to live under government-sanctioned medical quarantine. Father Damien gained practical skills in caring for the sick, eagerly learning wound cleansing, bandaging techniques, and drug administration from a nurse. Mahatma Gandhi said that Father Damien's work had inspired his own social campaigns in India.</p>
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