Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States (Studies in Social Medicine)

By comparing institutions in Hawai'i and Louisiana designed to incarcerate individuals with a highly stigmatized disease, Colonizing Leprosy provides an innovative study of the complex relationship between U.S. imperialism and public health policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the Kalaupapa Settlement in Moloka'i and the U.S. National Leprosarium in Carville, Michelle Moran shows not only how public health policy emerged as a tool of empire in America's colonies, but also how imperial ideologies and racial attitudes shaped practices at home.Michelle T. Moran is the author of 'Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States (Studies in Social Medicine)', published 2007 under ISBN 9780807831458 and ISBN 080783145X.