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Making and Unmaking the Asylum: Leprosy and Modernity in Singapore and Malaysia
de Loh Kah Seng
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- Fine.
- ISBN 10
- 9833782760
- ISBN 13
- 9789833782765
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Oakland, California, United States
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Strategic Information and Research Development Centre. 2009. Trade paperback. Fine.. 151 p. Includes: illustrations, index, bibliography. . Making and Unmaking the Asylum recounts the entangled stories 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 coinncidence, Loh argues, that the majority of patients were poor and working-class. Yet this book also richly demonstrates how patients resisted being victims-creating new families, forging friendships, working, joining unions, and actively engaging in their communal religious and cultural lives. Having struggled to remake the asylums into homes, ex-sufferers in both countries have been evicted or moved again, their personal and collective histories erased and their real homes exchanged for antiseptic hospital wards, or worse.
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- Librería
- Masalai Press
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- Alibris.0038540
- Título
- Making and Unmaking the Asylum: Leprosy and Modernity in Singapore and Malaysia
- Autor
- Loh Kah Seng
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Trade paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine.
- Cantidad disponible
- 2
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 9833782760
- ISBN 13
- 9789833782765
- Editorial
- Strategic Information and Research Development Centre
- Fecha de publicación
- 2009
- Palabras clave
- 151 p. Includes: illustrations, index, bibliography., Leprosy-Malaysia-History, Leprosy-Singapore-History
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