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Author: Kerri A. Inglis
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0824836359
Category: Medical

Ma'i Lepera: Disease and Displacement in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i

Ma'i Lepera attempts to recover Hawaiian voices at a significant moment in Hawai'i's history. Download Ma'i Lepera medical books for free.
It takes an unprecedented look at the Hansen's disease outbreak (1865 1900) almost exclusively from the perspective of patients, ninety percent of whom were Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian). Using traditional and nontraditional sources, published and unpublished, the book tells the story of a disease, a society s reaction to it, and the consequences of the experience for Hawai'i and its people.

Over a span of thirty-four years more than five thousand people were sent to a leprosy settlement on the remote Makanalua peninsula in north Molokai. Their story has seldom been told despite the hundreds of letters they wrote to families, friends, Get Ma'i Lepera our bestseller medical books.

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Their story has seldom been told despite the hundreds of letters they wrote to families, friends,

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