While premodern poets and preachers viewed leprosy as a disease of the soul, physicians in the period understood it to be a cancer of the whole body. This book explores the medical and social perspectives on leprosy at a time when judicious diagnosis could spare healthy people from social ostracization and help the afflicted get a license to beg.
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ISBN | 9780801886133 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | Fester Einband |
Verlag | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Jahr | 20070826 |
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