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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 207–208.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Carol Benedict Leprosy in China: A History . By Angela Ki Che Leung . New York : Columbia University Press , 2009 . xi, 373 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Leprosy, or Hansen's disease, is one of the few human maladies whose...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 651–652.
Published: 01 May 2003
...Ishita Pande Leprosy in Colonial South India: Medicine and Confinement . By Jane Buckingham . Palgrave : New York , 2002 . xi , 236 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 651 do not quite fit into this framework...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1963) 23 (1): 55–67.
Published: 01 November 1963
..., and died of leprosy in 1871 at Upper Alton, Illinois. 83
Edkins
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, p. 269 . 84 “Letter from Roberts, Nanking, February 24, 1861,” North China Herald , 03 30, 1861
, and “Letter from Reverend Carpenter, Shanghai, April 5, 1861,” Sabbath Recorder , XVII ( 08 1, 1861...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 649–651.
Published: 01 May 2003
... to others" (p. 35). It is, ultimately, the different and contradictory answers given in this volume to a certain number of shared and urgent historical questions that give this volume its historiographical richness. DIPESH CHAKRABARTY University of Chicago Leprosy in Colonial South India: Medicine...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 859–861.
Published: 01 August 2011
..., Barrett makes three very interesting propositions: that disease discrimination (e.g. against leprosy sufferers) is itself an illness; that the source of the illness lies in the discriminator, and not in those against whom are discriminated; and that mortality anxiety motivates morbidity discrimination...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1945) 4 (2): 148–157.
Published: 01 February 1945
....) pp. 3 – 9 . Princeton, N. J. Simmons J. S. , Whayne T. F. , Anderson G. W. , Horack H. M. , and coll.: Global epidemiology, a geography of disease and sanitation . Volume I. L. B. Lippincott Company , Philadelphia , 1944 . 504 pp. Report of the Philippine Leprosy...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (3): 827–829.
Published: 01 August 2014
... in Colonial Korea.” In “‘Colonial Modernity’ and the Hegemony of the Body Politic in Leprosy Relief Work,” Keunshik Jung studies Western missionary efforts at treating leprosy in Korea in comparison with those of state-run institutions, while Kwang-Ok Kim examines regional tensions between Confucians, shamans...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 785–787.
Published: 01 August 2020
... Press , 2000 ), 17 – 49
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, The Modern Epidemic: A History of Tuberculosis in Japan ( Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1995 ) ;
Susan L.
Burns
, Kingdom of the Sick: A History of Leprosy and Japan ( Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1132–1133.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., leprosy, and plague, to name but a few conditions, have served as the focus of numerous books and articles. Beriberi ( kakkebyō ), too, has elicited some attention, mostly among Japanese scholars. As the first English-language monograph on the subject, Alexander R. Bay's Beriberi in Modern Japan...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 597–599.
Published: 01 May 2009
... 2009 Anyone who has opened an old medical missionary journal has seen them: page after page of blurry black-and-white photographs, each showing Chinese people suffering from horrifying, body-desecrating afflictions—elephantiasis, leprosy, massive tumors. The overall effect of these photographs...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (3): 818–819.
Published: 01 August 2018
... dialogue between the history of medicine and disability studies has demonstrated, the tension between medical and socio-cultural approaches to disability requires a creative balance. Given Kim's examples of eugenics and leprosy, further elaboration on biomedical possibilities and the problems caused...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (1): 233–234.
Published: 01 February 1994
... right ear while seated before an icon. Having heard that leprosy is curable by eating human flesh, he rushed out a bit too late to offer prime cuts of himself to a leper. He aimed vitriol at Honen. He spent years longing to leave Japan, trying to get to India to be with Sakyamuni. Perhaps, as current...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (1): 232–233.
Published: 01 February 1994
... karmic destiny hung on these things, he was obsessed with getting them right. BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 233 There was a frenzy in Myoe. He cut off his right ear while seated before an icon. Having heard that leprosy is curable by eating human flesh, he rushed out a bit too late to offer prime cuts of himself...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (3): 667–669.
Published: 01 August 2019
... institutional efforts to address it (via the establishment of the Tokyo Poor House and public leprosy sanitaria, for example), and the efforts of Japan's early socialists to organize and edify the poor, Huffman castigates Meiji society in moral terms for its “criminal” indifference. He is not indifferent...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (2): 365–379.
Published: 01 May 2022
... on the importance of the body. Their framework addressed problems of visibility, using their work to bring to light sufferers of tuberculosis and leprosy, and the social stigma toward female sexuality. First, Motofuji emphasized the ill treatment of leprosy sufferers in Japan. From 1907, the Leprosy Prevention...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (2): 479–481.
Published: 01 May 1991
.... The film shows a woman with leprosy, already without fingers, who has made 18,000 bricks to build a house for her son; she also writes poetry for him. Lepers have kindness; so, too, do those who treat them, especially the Catholic nuns, whose devotion is based on long tin (faith). If faith is lost, one...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (5): 734–735.
Published: 01 September 1962
... review 9 (Aug. 1961), 9-10. ZAIDI, ALI NASIR. Leprosy in Pakistan and what to do about it. Pakistan review 9 (Feb. 1961), 39-41, 45. HIMALAYA Kashmir Books FERGUSON, JAMES P. Kashmir; an historical introduction. London, Centaur Press, 1961. 214 p. illus. HUTTENBACK, ROBERT A. Gulab Singh and the creation...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 659–661.
Published: 01 May 2003
... the institutions (medical colleges and schools, research institutions), sanitation and army health, 660 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES communicable diseases (including different sections on cholera, the plague, smallpox, malaria, kala-azar, typhoid, tuberculosis, leprosy, and venereal diseases thereby covering...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 381–415.
Published: 01 May 2002
... . Stanford : Stanford University Press . Benedict Carol . 1997 . “Chinese Police Campaigns Against Persons with Leprosy, 1934–37.” Paper presented at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago. Bowers John Z. 1972 . Western Medicine in a Chinese Palace: Beijing Union Medical...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (3): 823–825.
Published: 01 August 2004
... beastly and concluded the temple should be leveled (p. 57) to the ground. There is the legend that Narasimha had the temple built to cure himself of leprosy or that, on the contrary, he built for the Sun a temple in order that he would live in heaven with other gods by virtue of this religious act (p...
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