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Catherin Agudelo

Erenilda Custódio dos Santos Amaral

Alison Bashford

Alexandra Botelho

Jane Buckingham

Marcos Cueto

Harriet Deacon

Janet E Frantz

Maria Eugenia Noviski Gallo

Marcia Gaudet

Simonne Horwitz

D George Joseph

Thais Junqueira

Ken Kalling

Ryuichi Kitano

Anne Lever

Angela Leung

Julie Levison

Laurinda Maciel

John Manton

Abel Fernando Martínez Martín

Renisa Mawani

Henk Menke

Yara Nogueira Monteiro

Michelle Therese Moran

Chandi Prasad Nanda

Diana Obregón-Torres

Maria Leide W de Oliveira

Shubhada S Pandya

Biswamoy Pati

Claudia Platarrueda Vanegas

Ricardo Punzalan

Jayadev Sahu

Germilina M Santos

Loh Kah Seng

Thomas Hunter Smith

James Staples

Italo Tronca

Cassandra White

Corinne Shear Wood

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CATHERIN AGUDELO Email: cathagura@hotmail.com "Catalogo de documentos sobre la historia del lazareto de Agua de Dios" (Catalogue of documents on the history of Agua de Dios's lazaretto)
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ERENILDA CUSTÓDIO DOS SANTOS AMARAL Rua Djalma Ramos 15^A / 101 Graça Salvador Bahia Brazil Tel: +55 71 245 2408 Email: erenildacsa@uol.com.br Bio Erenilda Custódio dos Santos Amaral took her degree in history in 1984, at the Universidade Católica do Salvador, and then went on to specialise in the study of archives. She was the archivist at the Public Archive of Bahia from 1988 to 1991 and has since continued to hold posts relating to culture and education, including the position of history lecturer at Colégio São José in 1998 and tutor in archive-related studies in the Department of Documentation and Information at the Federal University of Bahia from 2000 to 2001.
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ALISON BASHFORD Email: alison.bashford@arts.usyd.edu.au Bio Alison Bashford is currently Associate Professor of History at the University of Sydney. She has written on the history of public health in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Britain and Australia, with a focus on the management of leprosy and other communicable diseases. She is currently working on international history, biopolitics and globalisation, explored through expert scientific discourses on ‘population’ in the 20th century, and on comparative medical-legal border control in Australia and the UK. The latter is a British Academy - Australian Academies collaborative project with Dr John Welshman, Lancaster University. Associate Professor Bashford is an Honorary Associate of the Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney, teaches in the graduate program in Medical Humanities and is Co-Chair with Robert Aldrich of the 'Nation-Empire-Globe' Research Cluster. Publications Books Medicine at the Border: the politics of disease, globalization and security. Palgrave, London and New York, 2006: editor. Imperial Hygiene: a critical history of colonialism, nationalism and public health. Palgrave, London and New York, 2004. Isolation: places and practices of exclusion. Routledge, London, 2003. Co-edited with Carolyn Strange. Contagion: historical and cultural studies. Routledge, London, 2001. Co-edited with Claire Hooker. Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine. Macmillan, London, 1998. Book Chapters ''The Age of Universal Contagion: history, disease and globalization'' in A. Bashford (ed.) Medicine at the Border. Palgrave, London, 2006. ''Where is the border? Tuberculosis screening in Australia and the UK, 1950-2000'' in A. Bashford (ed.) Medicine at the Border. Palgrave, London, 2006. Co-authored with Ian Convery and John Welshman. ''Tuberculosis and Immigration in Australia, 1901-2001: the great white plague turns alien'' in Michael Worboys and Flurin Condrau (eds) The History of Tuberculosis in International Perspective. Routledge, London, 2006. ''Gender, Medicine and Empire'’ in Philippa Levine, ed., Gender and Empire: The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 6. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004: pp. 113-33. ''Isolation and Exclusion in the Modern World'’ in Carolyn Strange and Alison Bashford, eds., Isolation: places and practices of exclusion. Routledge, London, 2003: pp. 1-19. Co-authored with C. Strange. '‘Cultures of Confinement: tuberculosis, isolation and the sanatorium’' in Carolyn Strange and Alison Bashford, eds., Isolation: places and practices of exclusion, Routledge, London, 2003: pp. 133-49. '‘Foreign Bodies: vaccination, contagion and colonialism in the nineteenth century'’ in Alison Bashford and Claire Hooker, eds., Contagion: historical and cultural studies, Routledge, London, 2001: pp. 39-60. '‘Leprosy and the Management of Race, Sexuality and Nation'’ in Alison Bashford and Claire Hooker, eds., Contagion: historical and cultural studies. Routledge, London, 2001: pp. 106-28. Co-authored with Maria Nugent. ''Contagion, Modernity and Postmodernity'' in Alison Bashford and Claire Hooker, eds., Contagion: historical and cultural studies. Routledge, London, 2001: pp. 1-12. Co-authored with Claire Hooker. Articles ''Tuberculosis, migration, and medical examination: lessons from history'', Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 60 (2006): 282-84. Co-authored with John Welshman ''Global biopolitics and the history of world health'', History of the Human Sciences, 18, 1 (2006): 67-88. ''Immigration and Health: Law and regulation in Australia, 1958-2004'', Health and History, 7.1 (2005): 86-101. ''Immigration and Health: law and regulation in Australia, 1901-1958'', Health and History, 6.1 (2004): 97-112. Co-authored with Sarah Howard ''Public Pedagogy: sex education and mass communication in the mid twentieth century'', Journal of the History of Sexuality, 13.1 (2004): 71-99. Co-authored with Carolyn Strange '‘At the Border: contagion, immigration, nation'’, Australian Historical Studies, no. 120 (2002): 344-58 ''Tuberculosis and Economy: Public Health and Labour in the Early Welfare State'', Health and History, 4.2 (2002): 19-40 "'Is White Australia Possible?' colonialism, race and tropical medicine", Ethnic and Racial Studies, 23 (2000): 112-135 "Quarantine and the Imagining of the Australian Nation", Health, 2 (1998): 387-402.
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ALEXANDRA M BOTELHO Conservation of Rare Books Works of Art on Paper Photographs Tel/fax 63 2 563 2628 Cell 63 918 393 6625 Email: ardnaxelab@yahoo.com Bio Alexandra M. Botelho completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University, Montréal, Québec and a Masters of Library and Information Science in Preservation and Conservation Studies as part of the Conservator Training Program from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Texas at Austin. As an Andrew W, Mellon Fellow, in the Advanced Residency Program for Photographic Conservation, she completed a post-graduate research fellowship for the development and training of practitioners in the field of photographic conservation at George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, New York. She has been a visiting scholar at the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, California, and also attended the Fratelli Alinari: Photographic Album Workshop, Florence, Italy. She has been an intern at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Conservation Center at New York University and the American Museum of Natural History Library, New York. As a preservation consultant, she has provided preservation workshops, consultation on exhibitions, storage preservation and cultural properties for the Culion Museum and Archives, Culion, Palawan, Philippines; the Jorge B. Vargas Museum, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Manila; and the Center for International Studies, University of the Philippines. She is also a conservator in private practice and a lecturer in Manila. Publications “The Durieu Album: Early 19th Century French Photographic Techniques and Studies in the Nude Figure.” Preprints: Conservation of Paper, Books and Photographic Materials, 17-19 April 2002 Melbourne Australia, Australian Institute for Conservation of Cultural Materials Symposium, 2002. “Caring for Print Collections.” Art Manila Quarterly, IV.1 (2003). “Sagada and the Story of Clay.” Art Manila Quarterly, V.2 (2003). “The Preservation of Photographic Print Materials.” Art Manila Quarterly VI.1 (2004).
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JANE BUCKINGHAM Department of History University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch New Zealand Email: jane.buckingham@canterbury.ac.nz Bio Jane Buckingham completed her PhD in 1996, taking the degree from the University of Sydney after several years' research in India and the United Kingdom. Dr Buckingham is Lecturer in South Asian History at the University of Christchurch, New Zealand, a position held since 1996. Her thesis draws on archival and indigenous sources to construct a history of medical and legal aspects of leprosy in Colonial South India. The focus is upon the interplay of indigenous and British medical authority, and the ambiguous status of the leprosy sufferers in the British colonial legal and medical system. Dr Buckingham teaches all aspects of South Asian history and has particular research interests in the history of medicine and law. She welcomes enquiries from those interested in postgraduate research in these areas. She is currently completing a monograph on Power and Compassion: Crime, Poverty and Marginalisation in early Colonial South India. Works/Publications Thesis 'Medicine and Confinement: Leprosy in Colonial South India', 1996 - unpublished, held at the University of Sydney, Fisher Library, NSW, 2006, Australia Books Leprosy in Colonial South India. Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2002. Click here for full details Articles “From the Archives: The Pacific Leprosy Foundation Archive and the Oral History of Leprosy in the Pacific” Journal of Pacific History (forthcoming) ''The 'Morbid Mark': The Place of Leprosy Sufferers in Nineteenth Century Hindu Law'', South Asia, XX.1 (1997), pp.57-80.
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MARCOS CUETO Home address: Roca Bologna 633 Lima 18 Peru Tel: +51 1 4779969 Work address: Profesor Principal Facultad de Salud Pública y Administración (Head Professor of the Faculty of Public Health and Administration) Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia Av. Honorio Delgado 430 San Martín de Porres Lima Peru Tel: +(511) 382-0320 Fax: +(511) 381-9072 Email: mcueto@upch.edu.pe Bio Main areas of investigation 1997 Visiting Fellow. British Academy of Science. Beca para investigar en la Escuela de Medicina Tropical, Liverpool. 1997 Resident Fellow. Study & Conference Center, Bellagio, Fundación Rockefeller. 1995-96 Organización Panamericana de la Salud, OPS -Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, CLACSO. Ganador del Concurso de investigación Latinoamericano sobre Estado y salud. Tema: Estado y Cólera en el Perú Contemporáneo 1995-96 Sephis Programme. Faculty of History and Arts. Erasmus University Rotterdam. Holanda. Investigación sobre epidemias y etnicidad en los Andes, siglos XIX y XX. 1993-94 Fellow. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1990-91 Rockefeller Archive Center. Tarrytown, New York. Scholar in Residence. 1989-90 Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies. Otras Becas de investigación 1998 Fellow. Japan Center of Area studies, JCAS. Japón. Conferencias en Osaka y Tokio. 1996 Wellcome Trust, Londres. Beca para investigar en la Wellcome Library, Londres. 1995 Organización Panamericana de la Salus, OPS(Lima)-Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, CONCYTEC. Beca de estudio para la historia de la salud pública en el Perú. 1994 Beca de investigación del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de España. 1993 National Endowment for the Humanities. Washington D.C. Título del Proyecto: Science in Latin America: History and Sources. Director: Thomas F. Glick. 1992 Indiana University-Indianapolis. Center on Philanthropy. 1991 Ball Brothers Foundation Fellowship. Indiana University-Bloomington. 1990 American Philosophical Society. 1990 Short-term visitor grant. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. 1989 British Council, Lima. Para investigar en la Wellcome Library, Londres 1989 FOMCIENCIAS. Asociación Peruana para el Avance de las Ciencias Sociales. 1988 Rockefeller Archive Center. Grant-in-aid. Para investigar en el Rockefeller archive Center, New York. 1986-87 Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Peru, CONCYTEC. 1983-85 Organization of American States, OAS, PRA Fellowship para estudios de doctorado en Columbia. 1982-83 Columbia University. Presidential Fellowship.
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HARRIET DEACON Tel/Fax: +27-21-5313906 Cell: 083 7511868 Email: harriet@conjunction.co.za Bio Harriet Deacon is currently a freelance historian based in South Africa. She works on HIV/AIDS stigma, the history of medicine and in the field of heritage management and policy. Her work on leprosy was part of a PhD thesis ( Cambridge, 1994) on the history of three medical institutions at Robben Island: a leprosarium, a mental hospital and a chronic sick hospital. This work focused on the stigmatisation of people with leprosy, their enforced segregation from society and gender and racial segregation within the leprosarium. Current projects include a history of medical research at Groote Schuur Hospital. Selected Publications H J Deacon, I Stephney and S Prosalendis. HIV/AIDS stigma: a theoretical and methodological review. Cape Town, 2005. H J Deacon, E van Heyningen, A Digby and H Phillips (eds). The Cape Doctor. Rodopi, 2004. H J Deacon. "Patterns of exclusion on Robben Island, 1654-1992" in C Strange and A Bashford (eds) Isolation: Places and practices of exclusion. Routledge, 2003. "Racism and Medical Science in the Cape Colony", Osiris 15 (2000), 190-206 reprinted in J P Jackson (ed) Science, Race and Ethnicity: readings from Isis and Osiris. University of Chicago Press, 2002. "Midwives and Medical Men in the Cape Colony before 1860", Journal of African History, 1998. "Cape Town and Country Doctors in the Cape Colony During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century", Social History of Medicine, 10.1 (1997): 25-52. (Editor) The Island: a History of Robben Island, 1488-1992. David Philip and Mayibuye Books, 1996. "Racial Segregation and Medical Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Cape Town ", Journal of Southern African Studies, 22.2 (1996): 287-308. "Leprosy and Racism at Robben Island" in E van Heyningen (ed) Studies in the History of Cape Town, vol 7. Cape Town, 1994, pp. 45-83.
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JANET E FRANTZ 109 Lafitte Avenue Lafayette LA 70506 USA Tel (Work): +1 337 482 6165 Fax (Work): +1 318 482 6170 Email: frantz@louisiana.edu Bio Professor Janet Frantz is currently Head of the Political Science Department at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her published research includes a comparative study of Japanese / US leprosy policy, and work on the efforts to close the US national leprosarium (National Hansen's Disease Center) at Carville. Publications Sato, Hajime and Janet E. Frantz. "Science, Policy Changes, and the Garbage Can Model: Termination of the Leprosy Isolation Policy in the US and Japan", BMC International Health and Human Rights, 5.3 (2005). Sato, Hajime and Janet E. Frantz. "History of Hansen's disease control policy in the United States", Japanese Journal of Leprosy, 74.1 (2005) (Article is written in Japanese). Frantz, Janet E. "The High Cost of Policy Termination." Principles and Practices of Public Administration. eds. Jack Rabin, Robert Munzenrider and Sherrie Bartell. Marcel Dekker Publishing Company, 2003. "Political Resources for Policy Terminators." Policy Studies Journal, 30 (2002): 11-28 "Reviving and Revising a Termination Model." Policy Sciences, 25 (1992):175-189
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MARIA EUGENIA NOVISKI GALLO Email: meng@ioc.fiocruz.br Bio Maria Eugenia Noviski Gallo is a physician and a leprosy researcher, with a PhD in Tropical Diseases. She is head of the leprosy laboratory at the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she has worked since 1976. Dr Noviski Gallo has published a number of medical works, and, together with colleagues from the Oswaldo Cruz Museum, has recently begun work on the history of leprosy in Brazil.
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MARCIA GAUDET Department of English University of Louisiana at Lafayette Lafayette, LA 70504-4691 USA Tel: +1 337-482-5505 Fax: +1 337-482-5071 E-mail: folklore@louisiana.edu Bio Dr. Marcia Gaudet has interviewed patients at the former National Hansen's Disease Center at Carville, Louisiana, since 1983. She has focused her work on the personal narratives of former patients and how they established a folk community at Carville with traditions and celebrations unique to this community. She is a professor of English and Folklore at University of Louisiana at Lafayette. At present she is completing a book on the personal narratives and traditions from Carville. Publications "The World Downside Up: Mardi Gras at Carville." Journal of American Folklore, 111 (1998): 23-38. "Telling It Slant: Personal Narratives, Tall Tales, and the Reality of Leprosy." Western Folklore, 49:3 (1990): 191-207. "Through the Hole in the Fence: Personal Narratives of Absconding from Carville." Fabula, 29 (1988): 354-364. Presentations Voicing the Unspeakable Trauma: Memory, Identity, and Survival at Carville. American Folklore Society Meeting, Rochester, New York. October 2002. History and Memory Interred: The Graveyard at Carville. American Folklore Society Meeting. Portland, Oregon, October 1998.
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SIMONNE HORWITZ Email: simonne.horwitz@usask.ca Bio Simonne recently completed her D.Phil at Oxford and is currently a sessional lecturer for the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. Her masters thesis is a case study of Westfort Leprosy Institution, seven miles west of Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital. The work traces the history of the institution during the first half of the twentieth century. It shows how segregation and exclusion operated on multiple levels. Not only were patients isolated from the outside world but they were internally segregated along gender, class and racial lines. Through detailed case studies the work demonstrates how these factors influenced the daily lives of those living with the disease, the way in which they were managed and, importantly, their access to facilities and resources. These divisions were highlighted by the fact that Westfort catered for male and female patients and was one of only two multi-racial government run leprosaria in South Africa.
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D GEORGE JOSEPH Yale University P. O. Box 200779 New Haven Connecticut 06520-0779 USA Tel: +1 203.785.4701 Fax: +1 203.737.4130 Email: dgjoseph@earthlink.net Bio George Joseph is a doctoral candidate in the Section of the History of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut (USA). He was graduated from Washington University in Saint Louis (USA) with the A.B. with honours in biology and history and the A.M. in history before beginning advanced studies at Yale. In 2000, he received M.A. and M.Phil. degrees in the history of medicine and science from Yale. His interests are in the history of American medicine, particularly the history of disease and public health, reflected in his dissertation that examines efforts to control leprosy (Hansen's Disease) in Massachusetts between 1880 and 1920. More recently, he has also begun to examine the work of European and American medical missionaries to leprosy sufferers in Africa and Asia during the late nineteenth century, particularly the work of Wellesley Bailey and the Missions to Lepers. Abstract Americans Confront the 'Loathsome' Disease: Leprosy and Tropical Medicine in Progressive Era Massachusetts This dissertation examines efforts to control leprosy in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts between 1880 and 1920. Two events frame the period: the state's first credible reported case of leprosy in 1880 and the removal of all leprosy patients in state custody to the federal leprosarium in Carville, Louisiana in March 1921. The centerpiece of Massachusetts' public health efforts against leprosy was a leprosarium operated by the Commonwealth between 1905 and 1921 on Penikese Island, located fifteen miles from its southeastern coast. The United States operated leprosaria at Culion in the Philippine archipelago and at Kalaupapa, on Molokai in the Hawaiian Islands; until 1921, when its operation was assumed by the United States Public Health Service and designated as the federal leprosarium at which all states could segregate leprosy patients, the only other leprosarium in the continental United States was operated by the state of Louisiana in Carville. Unlike the Philippines, the Hawaiian Islands, and Louisiana, leprosy was not an endemic disease in Massachusetts. In fact, between 1825 and 1921, only forty-eight cases of leprosy were reported in Massachusetts, although thirty-eight of the cases were identified between 1904 and 1921. Like Louisiana, Massachusetts was the only other state to pursue aggressive public health and social welfare efforts against Commonwealth residents afflicted with leprosy. Particularly striking about these efforts was that by every measure, public health activities in Massachusetts were regarded as among the most advanced and most sophisticated in the United States. Public health officials in Massachusetts recognized that segregating leprosy patients was medically unnecessary, but they relented to public pressure to act and to public perceptions about the dangers posed by leprosy. The story of the Penikese Island leprosarium demonstrates the power that the popular and the medical perceptions of a disease continued to exert in the development of public health policy at a time when physicians and public health officials were appealing to the authority of laboratory science as the arbitrator for public health practice. This element of the narrative considers issues of race, gender, and ethnicity in the social and medical construction of leprosy. Massachusetts' leprosy control efforts also reflects the explicit relationship that must exist between the political culture and the public health community in the formation and the implementation of any public health undertaking. Segregating patients on Penikese Island required new public health laws that defined leprosy as a dangerous disease and that granted new powers to the state in matters of public health, which Dr Joseph proposes, involved a fundamental re-orientation of the relationship between the state and the individual.
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THAIS JUNQUEIRA Email: tbjunqueira@uem.br Bio Thais Junqueira is a nursing professor in Universidade Estadual de Maringá. She is interested in the appearance of leprosy and its influence on the politics of northwest migration in Parana State. The region of Maringá City where the work was developed experienced intense migration movements in the 50's. In this period of the colonization of this region, many people with the disease left leprosaria and consequently disseminated the disease. Now due to improved health control services many peoples are coming to this region for better treatment.
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SANJIV KAKAR College of Vocational Studies University of Delhi Address for correspondence: Bungalow 31 Nizamuddin East, New Delhi 110013 91-11-24359573, 91-9811047510 Email: osanjiv@yahoo.com Bio Sanjiv Kakar received his M.Phil in English literature from Delhi University. He begun his research on social aspects of leprosy in India in 1990, with field work in 4 endemic districts. This included meetings with patients, barefoot doctors (non medical staff who assist in detection of cases and ensure regularity of medication) district medical officers and leprosy specialists. He combines Oral History with archival research. He has since researched and published on aspects of empire and medicine, missionary medicine, and on interrogating colonial discourse with oral testimony. Publications Sanjiv Kakar, The Patient, The Person: Empowering the Leprosy Patient. Danlep, New Delhi 1992 (booklet). "Leprosy in India: the Intervention of Oral History" Oral History (Essex), 23.1 (Spring 1995): 37-45. Reprinted in in Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson (eds) The Oral History Reader. Routledge, London, 1998. "The Problem. Introductory article to a seminar issue on the Politics of Health, and Leprosy" Seminar 428, The Politics of Health (April 1995): 12-14 "Myth and Medicine", Seminar 428, The Politics of Health (April 1995): 32-35. "Leprosy in British India, 1860-1940; Colonial Politics and Missionary Medicine." Medical History (London), 40 (1996): 215-230. "Medical Developments and Patient Unrest in the Leprosy Asylum, 1860-1940" in Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison (eds), Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Colonial India. Orient Longman, 2001, pp. 188-216 Seminars / Conferences (i) Leprosy in India, 1880-1900. Research Seminar, History of Science and Medicine, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, 27 April, 1994 (ii) The Rise of the Leprosy Asylum in Nineteenth Century India Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, 6 May 1994. (iii) The Oral History of Leprosy in India Leprosy History Meeting, July 2000, Acworth Leprosy Hospital, Mumbai, 16 July 2000. (iv) Asian Leprosy Congress, Agra, 9-13 November, 2000, (delegate) (v) Perspectives on Leprosy in India International Leprosy Association Global Project on the History of Leprosy, Seminar Series, Wellcome Unit, Oxford, 10 March 2003 (vi) Meditation and Social Rehabilitation of Leprosy Affected: An Oral History Study of this unique project in Contemporary India Health between Private and Public, International Conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health, Oslo, 3-7 September, 2003.
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KEN KALLING Lecturer of the History of Medicine Dept. of Public Health Faculty of Medicine Univ. of Tartu Ravila 19, 50 411 Tartu (+372) 56 454 902 (+372) 737 4192 Email: ken.kalling@eau.ee Bio Ken Kalling is a lecturer of the History of Medicine at the Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tartu, Ravila, in Estonia. He holds a BA in History and Archaeology from the University of Tartu, an MA in Medieval studies, from the Central European University, of Budapest and is undertaking his doctorate in the Faculty of Social Studies, at the University of Tartu. His present research interests include the history of the eugenics movement in Estonia and the history of medicine in Estonia and the Baltic region. Publications (in English) "Post-Crusade Urban Population in Tartu, Estonia." Annual of Medieval Studies at the CEU 1994-1995. Eds. M. B. Davis, M. Sebök. Budapest: Medieval Studies Dept-CEU, 1996 "A Paleoanthropological Case Study on the Skeletal Material from the Cemetery of St. John`s in Tartu." In: H. S. Vuorinen and U. Vala, (eds) Vanhojen luiden kertomaa. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press,1997. “Racial Aspects in Estonian Eugenics” Folia Baeriana, 7 (1999) “Introduction to the History of Estonian Eugenics” Annual Report 1998, Tartu University History Museum, 3 (1999). “Interdisciplinarity: a Gate for Wishful Thinking”, History of Medieval Life and the Sciences. Forschungen des Instituts für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit, Diskussionen und materialen, nr. 4. Wien, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenshaften, 2000 “The Story of Estonian Eugenics”, Acta Medico-Historica Rigensia. Vol. V (XXIV). Riga, 2000 “Body as a Measuring Device”. In: The Human Being at the Intersection of Science, Religion and Medicine / Piirid ja kohtumised: Teadus ja religioon tehnoteaduslikus maailmas. Tartu, TÜ Kirjastus, 2001
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RYUICHI KITANO Journalist, Staff Writer of the Asahi Shimbun, Japan Associate to the Program on US-Japan Relations Address: Harvard University 1737 Cambridge Street Room 615A Cambridge MA 02138-3099 USA Tel: +1 (617) 495-1890 Fax: +1 (617) 495-4921 Mob: +1 (617) 970-3647 Email: kitano@r.email.ne.jp / rkitano@cfia.harvard.edu Bio KITANO Ryuichi is a journalist for the Asahi Shimbun newspaper in Tokyo, and a research associate of the Harvard University's Program on US-Japan Relations, and stayed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, until June 2002. His research is a comparative study of the United States and Japan, and their respective efforts to control leprosy, a topic that he has studied in Japan for seven years. In November 2001, he visited Carville, Louisiana; in early 2002, he visited Kalaupapa National Historical Park on Molokai Island, Hawaii. He has written several articles for the Japanese newspaper, Asahi Shimbun, and is now writing a research paper - "The Price of Isolation: US-Japan Comparative Study on Public Health Policy with Special Reference to Hansen's Disease." Publications "I Have Finally Become a Human Being: Japanese Leprosaria Residents Win a Lawsuit Against the Government", The Star, 60.3 (July-September 2001): 1-2. "The End of Isolation: Hansen's Disease in Japan", Harvard Asia Quarterly, VI.3 (Summer 2002): 39-44
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KI CHE ANGELA LEUNG Research Fellow, Director, Sun Yat-sen Institute Sun Yat-sen Institute for Social Sciences and Philosophy (ISSP) Academia Sinica Nankang Taipei Taiwan Tel: +886 2-27898191 Fax: +886 2-7821824 Email: tpleung@ccvax.sinica.edu.tw Publications Books Shishan yu jiaohua: Ming-Qing di cishan zuzhi [Charity and Moral Transformation: Philanthropic Organisations of the Ming and Qing periods). Taipei: Linking Publishers, 380 pp. Zhongguojinshi dushi wenhua [Urban culture in pre-modern China]. Taipei: Yuanliu chubanshe. (Forthcoming)
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ANNE LEVER 5, Lorong Burhanuddin Helmi 4 Taman Tun Dr Ismail Kuala Lumpur 60000 Malaysia tel: 603 7726 7424 fax: 603 7727 6558 email: kacukan04@yahoo.com 12BJ, Tower III Kusuma Candra Apartemen Jln. Jend. Sudirman, Kav 52 - 53 Jakarta 12190 Indonesia Tel: 62 (0) 21 515 3956 Bio Ann Lever (also Ann Lee) recently graduated with an MSc in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology (2006) from the University of Oxford, and is currently preparing a research proposal for a PhD in the history of medicine in Malaysia (including Malaya and British North Borneo).
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JULIE LEVISON Harvard Medical School Year III 400 Brookline Ave Boston, MA 02215 USA Email: julie_levison@post.harvard.edu Bio Julie H. Levison is a magna cum laude graduate of Wellesley College with a degree in history. At Wellesley, Levison wrote a history honours thesis on leprosy and syphilis in 15th and 16th century Europe. As a Rhodes Scholar, Levison earned an MPhil degree in history from Oxford University, where she was awarded distinction for her thesis on the history of leprosy in Puerto Rico. A student at Harvard Medical School, Julie Levison is training to be a physician. Abstract Leprosy has held a special role in the history of disease and illness. From biblical times to the modern period, leprosy has been a disease associated with stigma. This mark of disgrace, physically present in the sufferers' sores and disfigured limbs, and embodied in the identity of a 'leper', has cast leprosy into the shadows of society. This thesis draws on a rich body of primary sources, written in Spanish, to reconstruct the social history of leprosy in Puerto Rico from 1898, when the United States annexed this island, until the 1930s, after the Department of Health relocated leprosy patients to an insular leprosarium. To examine the scientific understandings that were the basis of international models for leprosy control, the thesis begins by charting the development of leprology, or the scientific study of leprosy, as a science based on bacteriology. Examining the developments in Norway, the center of scientific research on leprosy, uncovers the political and social conditions that promoted this research. The international understanding of leprosy as a bacterial infection clearly influenced how public health authorities created and deployed models for leprosy control. Puerto Rico, within a colonial context, depended on the United States for the organization of its health services. Thus their model of leprosy control was influenced by the United States' priorities for public health. These policies developed over the period of 1898 to the 1930s, as a result of the interplay between political events, scientific developments, and popular concerns. By studying the life inside the leprosaria in Puerto Rico it is apparent that religion was also central to the importation of American traditions and values in Puerto Rico. The history of leprosy in Puerto Rico represents the complex, modern interrelationship of humans, disease, and the social environment. Publications Co-author: ''Women's Health and Human Rights'' in Marjorie Agosin (ed) Women, Gender, and Human Rights: A Global Perspective. Rutgers University Press, 2001 Co-editor: Magical Sites: Women Travelers to 19th Century Latin America, White Pine Press, 1999
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LAURINDA ROSA MACIEL Fundação Oswaldo Cruz / Casa de Oswaldo Cruz Av. Brasil, 403/6° andar Manguinhos Rio de Janeiro RJ/Brasil 21040-361 Tel/Fax: +55 21 2590 3690 Tel: +55 21 3882 9129 Home: +55 212275 1040 Cell: + 55 21 9200 8220 Email: laurinda@coc.fiocruz.br / laurindamaciel@gmail.com Bio Laurinda Maciel is a researcher at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, and has completed a doctorate in Social History at the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the history of leprosy in Brazil from the 1940s to the 1970s and public policy regarding control of the disease. She is finishing an oral history study of this topic.
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JOHN MANTON Nuffield College and the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford, UK. Email: john.manton@wuhmo.ox.ac.uk 1991-95 MA (Hons.) History, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK 1998-99 Holder, Wellcome Trust M.Sc. Studentship 1999- Holder, Wellcome Trust Doctoral Studentship Research Topic: Leprosy Control in Ogoja Province, Nigeria, 1936-67 Bio His research focuses on the co-operation between colonial and national governments, local bodies, and the Roman Catholic Mission (RCM) in the provision of leprosy control in the relatively isolated Ogoja Province of eastern Nigeria. The time period covered straddles Nigerian Independence, achieved in 1960. The commonalities between leprosy control and other interventions in rural public health are explored, and some attention is paid to the international political and medical context of Nigerian leprosy control. The significance of the Irish link to RCM welfare work in Nigeria is another focus of this work, linked as it is to a broader consideration of Irish missionary work overseas. The relation of RCM leprosy work to other leprosy work in eastern Nigeria and in Ogoja Province is also considered. Conference presentations (unpublished) Oct 2001 - Conference - "Ethics and Ethnics - the implementation of western medicine", Aberdeen, UK June 2001 - History of Women Religious Conference, Milwaukee, USA Sept 2000 - Currents in World Christianity Conference, Cambridge, UK
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ABEL FERNANDO MARTÍNEZ MARTÍN Profesor Asociado Escuela de Medicina Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia Antiguo Hospital San Rafael Tunja Boyacá Colombia Tel/Fax: +57 8 7424577 Email: mmedicina@tunja.uptc.edu.co Bio Dr Martínez Martín is a doctor of medicine and surgery at the National University of Colombia. He is history lecturer at the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC), where he founded the School of Medicine in the Health Sciences Faculty. He is in charge of the Department of Social Medicine and the investigative group, Historia de la Salud en Boyacá. He is UPTC Director and professor of History of Medicine, and runs Research Seminars in the School of Medicine. He is also the Director of the History of Medicine and Health Museum in the University and a Boyacense History Academy Member. Thesis El Lazareto de Boyacá. Lepra, Salud Publica y Estado, 1860-1910. [Boyacá Lazaretto. Leprosy, Public Health and State, 1860-1910] Publications Books Author: El Lazareto de Boyacá. Medicina, Iglesia y Estado, 1869-1916. De cómo Colombia se convirtió en la primera potencia leprosa del mundo y Boyacá en un inmenso lazareto. Tunja. UPTC. 2006 . Co-authored with Solney Vigee Alvaredo Guatibonza and Juan Fernando Carvajal Estupiñan. Aproximación Histórica a la Medicina y la Salud Pública en Tunja, siglo XIX. Tunja: UPTC, 2002 Co-authored with Javier Guerrero Baron, Estela Restrepo Zea, Hugo Armando Sotomayor Tribin, Maria Cecilia Gaitán Cruz and Emilio Quevedo V. Medicina y Salud en la História de Colombia. Tunja: UPTC, 1997 Co-authored with Alfonso Herrera A. Cotidianonegación, Razón de la Locura y Locura de la Razón. 2.ed. Bogotá: Oveja Negra, 1981 Chapters "Arqueología Sexual Colonial Colombiana". In: Medicina y Salud en la Historia de Colombia, UPTC; Ministerio de Salud, Archivo General de la Nación, Asociación Colombiana de Historiadores. 6. ed. Tunja, 1997, p.57-80 "Arqueologia Sexual Colombiana". In: Etnias, educación y archivos en la Historia de Colombia, UPTC; Archivo General de la Nación, Asociación Colombiana de Historiadores. Tunja, 1996, p. 8-22
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RENISA MAWANI Department of Anthropology and Sociology University of British Columbia 6303 NW Marine Drive Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 USA Tel: +1 604 822-6494 Fax: +1 604 822-6161 Email: renisa@interchange.ubc.ca Bio Renisa Mawani received her PhD in Criminology from the University of Toronto (2001). She joined the Anthropology and Sociology Department at the University of British Columbia in January 2003. Her research interests are in the areas of race, racism, and law; postcolonial legal studies/critical race theory; and race, space, and law. Her current research explores the interface between medical and penal practices of exclusion through the D'Arcy Island leper colony. Relevant papers April 2002. "The Island of the Unclean": Race, Leprosy, and the Making of National Boundaries. Unpublished paper presented at Critical Race Theory and the University, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. June 2002. Spatializing Chinese Exclusion: Leprosy, Immigration, and Deportation in Canada. Unpublished paper presented at the Joint American and Canadian Law and Society meetings, Vancouver, Canada. June 2002. 'From Lepers to Campers': Law, Identity, and (Post)colonial Spaces. Unpublished paper presented at the Postcolonial Legal Studies Workshop, Manning Park, British Columbia, Canada. Publications "'The Island of the Unclean': Race, Colonialism and 'Chinese Leprosy' in British Columbia, 1891-1924" Law, Social Justice & Global Development Journal (LGD), 1 (2003).
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HENK MENKE Email: henk@hemenke.demon.nl Henk Menke is a dermatologist, working in the Netherlands. He is originally from Suriname, where he worked for a few years in a leprosy clinic. In 2002 he was President of the Bethesda society which was founded in Amsterdam in 1902. This organisation has provided support for leprosy work in Suriname, including a symposium on the topic on 23rd November 2002. This meeting was organised as part of the centennial anniversary of the Bethesda Society.
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YARA NOGUEIRA MONTEIRO Rua Deolinda Rodrigues, nº 153 Butantã São Paulo SP, CEP: 05372-100 Brazil Tel: +55 11 3782 5841 Fax: +55 11 3782 7914 Email: yaramont@uol.com.br University degree in History (PUC-SP), Law (Mackenzie) and Literature (USP) Specialization in Education in Public Health. MSc in Social History - University of São Paulo PhD. in Sciences - University of São Paulo Thesis "Da Maldição Divina à Exclusão Social: Um Estudo da Hanseníase em São Paulo" [From Malediction to Social Exclusion: a Study of Leprosy in São Paulo.] S. Paulo, FFLCH/USP, 1995 Publications "Doença e pecado no imaginário cristão: um estudo sobe a lepra na Idade Média" [Disease and Sin in the Christian thinking : a study on leprosy in the Middle Ages]. Revista Estudos de Religião. Psicologia Saúde e Religião. São Bernardo do Campo, Ed. UMESP. Ano XIII, n 16, jun.1999 - ISSN 0103-801X "Violência e Profilaxia: os preventórios paulistas para filhos de hansenianos" [Violence and Prophilaxis: the preventories for children of leprosy patients in Sâo Paulo]. Revista Saúde e Sociedade. S. Paulo, vol.7/1, 1998 p 3-33. -ISSN 0104-1290 "Doença e Estigma" [Disease and Stigma]. Revista de História, São Paulo, Universidade de São Paulo, n. 1217/128, ago-dez/1992 a jan-jul-1993. p. 131. - ISSN 0034-8309 "Hanseníase: história e poder no Estado de São Paulo" [Leprosy: history and power in the State of São Paulo]. Revista Hansenologia Internacionalis, São Paulo, vol. 12, n. 1, junho de 1987. ISSN 0100-3283 Seminars "A doença como estigma: a ocorrência do fenômeno no Brasil". Guía General del X Congreso de la Federación Internacional de Estudios sobre America Latina y el Caribe. Moscou, Rússia, 2001, p 187. "O campo da Saúde no Brasil: reflexões realizadas a partir de Câmara Cascudo". Livro de Resumos do XV Encontro Regional de História. S. Paulo, 2000, p 99-200 "A influência dos ideais eugênicos nas Políticas Públicas de Saúde no Brasil (1930-1967): o caso da lepra". Livro de Resumos do VI Congresso Brasileiro de Saúde Coletiva. Salvador, 2000, p. 302-303 "Memória da Saúde Pública Paulista: os desafios de um projeto". Cadernos de Resumos do 2º Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências Sociais em Saúde. São Paulo, 1999. p. 81-82 "O mundo dos excluídos: o cotidiano de pacientes de hanseníase dentro dos asilos-colonia". Anais do XX Simpósio Nacional de História. Florianópolis, ANPUH/Univ. de Santa Catarina. Florianópolis, 1999. P. 551-552 "A lepra e as políticas públicas de saúde no Brasil (1930-1967). In: XIV Encontro Regional de História. S. Paulo, EDUSC, 1998 Projects 1- "Elaboração de Banco de Dados e Catálogos do Acervo do Arquivo Iconográfico de Hanseníase do Estado de São Paulo" [A data bank and iconographic archives of leprosy in the State of São Paulo] 2- "O Perfil do Paciente de Hanseníase" [Profile of the leprosy patient] 3- "Doença e Religião: o imaginário religioso do paciente de hanseníase" [Disease and Religion - the religious imaginary of the leprosy patient]
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MICHELLE THERESE MORAN Postdoctoral Fellow Department of History/308 University of Nevada, Reno Reno, NV 89557 USA Email: mmoran@unr.edu Thesis "Leprosy and American Imperialism: Patient Communities and the Politics of Public Health in Hawai'i and Louisiana, 1888-1959." Abstract Michelle Moran's dissertation argues that a colonizing mentality became intricately interwoven into U.S. public health policy from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries. This study of the Kalaupapa settlement in Moloka'i, Hawai'i, and the U.S. National Leprosarium in Carville, Louisiana, shows how public health officials adapted treatments and regulations developed at one site to the other, changing them to conform to their different ideas of how "Americans" and "natives" could and should be treated. At the same time, patients in both institutions attempted to recast their disease, rejecting the labels of primitive, unclean, and immoral embodied in such terms as "leper" and "leprosy." By exploring how patients actively participated in the practice of U.S. medicine and how leprosy became an American disease, we can more fully appreciate the interplay between metropole and colony in the United States.
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CHANDI PRASAD NANDA Address: Ranihat, Officers' Para (Near Bata Show Room), Post Buxi Bazar Cuttack Pin - 753001 India Tel: +91 0671-627949 Email: cpnanda@rediffmail.com Bio Educational Qualifications: B.A. History (Hons.), 1st class with distinction (64.5%) M.A. History (Modern Indian History as specialisation) 1st Class (61%) - Centre for Historical Studies (CHS), J.N.U. New Delhi Research degree: M.Phil.(1987), CHS, J.N.U., A minus/7.16; Theme of research, Civil Disobedience Movement to Congress Ministry, (1930-39) - Supervisor - Prof. Bipan Chandra Ph.D.(1996), CHS, J.N.U. theme of research , Civil Disobedience Movement to Quit India: A Study on the Anti-Colonial Movement of Orissa with Special Reference to the Role of Peasants and Tribal People - Supervisor - Prof. Bipan Chandra Present research interests: Social History of Colonial Orissa: Visited the U.K. in June-August 1999 - with a grant from the Charles Wallace (India) Trust and a University Grants Commission Foreign Travel Grant in connection with Post-Doctoral Research on the theme of "Social History of 19th Century Orissa". Publications Books Harekrushna Mahatab: A Biographical Study, Co-authored with Prof M N Das, Publication Division, Government of India (2001) Towards Swaraj: Nationalist Politics and Popular Movements in Orissa, Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi, 1997. Forthcoming (2002): PhD thesis to be published by Sage Publication, New Delhi in a Series entitled Themes on Modern Indian History which has Prof. Bipan Chandra, Mridula Mukharjee and Aditya Mukharjee as the General Editors. Articles "Mapping the Mahatma: Literary Tracts, Rumours and Late Colonial Orissa", Paper presented at the Annual Conference of Centre for Gandhian Studies, Viswa-Bharati University, Calcutta January 6--7 Jan. 2002, the paper is to be published in the forthcoming volume edited by Prof, Ranjit Ku. Ray as part of their Centre's Publication. "Marginal Texts, Marginal Men: A Note on the Social Mobility Movement of the Kudi-Mahantas of Mayurbhanj", Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Orissa Research Programme under the theme Periphery and Centre: Groups, Categories and Values (May 22 - 27, 2001), Salazu, Germany. The paper is to be published in the forthcoming volume of the Orissan Research Project. "History of Historyless: Colonial Orissa, Popular Protest and the Making of Swaraj" in Ravenshaw Historical Journal, 2001, Cuttack. "Mapping Colonial Orissa: Shaping of Nationalist Hegemony and Popular Protests (1920-42)" in Dinanath Pathy and Ramesh P. Panigrahi (eds) The Continuity in the Flux: Orissa. New Delhi, 1999. "Community, Culture, Politics: The 'Life History' of Siba Prasad Mohanty". Published in the Indian History Congress Proceedings, 60th (Diamond Jubilee Session), Calicut, 1999. "Mobilisation, Resistance and Popular Initiatives: Locating the Tribal Perceptions of Swaraj in RHW Jeypore Estate of Orissa" (1937-38), Published in the Indian History Congress Proceedings, Bangalore, 1998. This paper was also published in Society Culture, Polity in Eastern India, P.G. Department of Berhampur University, 1999. "Nationalist Politics and Popular Struggles in the Princely States, Rethinking Dhenkanal State (1937-39)", Studies in History and Culture, Vol. 6, Numbers 1 and 2, March-Sept, 1998, Berhampur, Orissa. "Nationalist Politics and Popular Movements in the Princely States: Rethinking Nilagiri" in Towards Merger. Orissa State Archives Publication, Bhubaneswar, 1998. "Popular Movements in the Post-Ghandi(s) Das, an Approach to Some Aspects of Subash Bose", Orissa State Archives Publication, 1997. "Re-reading Bose in the Post-Gandhi(s) Das, An Approach to Some Aspects of Subash Bose", Orissa State Archives Publication, 1997. "Tenancy Legislations in Orissa", in N.Patnaik (ed.) Economic History of Orissa. New Delhi, 1997. "Re-reading Gandhi Swaraj: Understanding Rumours/Myth in Popular Consciousness: Orissa (1937-39)". In A. Pradhan and A. K. Patnaik (eds), People's Movement in Orissa During the Colonial Era. P.G. Department of History, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, 1994 "Congress Ministry and Tenancy Legislation: A critique on the Colonial History of Orissa (1937-39)", The Orissa Historical Research Journal, XV Annual Session, 1989. "Nature of Socialist and Nationalist Politics : Facets of Radical Transformation of the Congress Movement in Orissa (1935-39)", in P. K. Mishra (ed) Culture, Tribal History and Freedom Movement. Agam Kala Prakashan, Delhi, 1989. (In addition to the above, he has published several short articles in journals and newspapers, 1989 to 2001).
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DIANA OBREGÓN-TORRES Professor Department of History Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotá, D C Colombia Tel: +57 1 345-7521 Fax: +57 1 316-5288 / +57 1 316-5291 Currently Visiting Researcher 2006-2007, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University Email: dobregont@unal.edu.co or dobregon@fas.harvard.edu Bio In 1997, she finished her Ph.D dissertation titled "Struggling Against Leprosy: Physicians, Medicine and Society in Colombia, 1870-1940". In this research she examined Colombian policy of leprosy control, analysing the professional interests of the physicians, the state, and the patients. Doctors, claiming possession of expert knowledge, initiated a battle to take over Colombian lazarettos, which were in the hands of philanthropic institutions. The main conclusion was that the government and the medical community favoured a technocratic approach to leprosy control rather than the promotion of social reform as a means to improve general living conditions. The interests of the medical community and of the elite prevailed over leprosy patients' interests. During the year 2000 she visited archives in England, and finished her book, Batallas contra la lepra: Estado, medicina y ciencia en Colombia. In this book she enlarged her research period to 1961, when compulsory isolation for leprosy patients was abolished. She examined the impact of sulphone therapy on leprosy control and found that the policy of compulsory isolation enforced in Colombia for more than half a century created a huge social and cultural gap between the medical community and the patients. This situation prevented the sick from taking full advantage of the new powerful treatment since they distrusted most doctors. Even if today leprosy is not an important public health problem in the country, it is still a social issue since newly infected people hide themselves for fear of being isolated and taken away from their families. She is currently researching the history of vaccines and vaccination in Colombia, 1897-1950. Publications Book Batallas contra la lepra: Estado, medicina y ciencia en Colombia. Medellín: Banco de la República/EAFIT, 2002, 436p. Articles "The anti-leprosy campaign in Colombia: the rhetoric of hygiene and science, 1920-1940", História, Ciências, Saúde Manguinhos, 10 (Supplement 1) (2003): 179-207. “Building National Medicine: Leprosy and Power in Colombia, 1870-1910,” Social History of Medicine, 15.1 (2002): 89-108. "La elusiva búsqueda de una vacuna para la lepra: Controversias entre ciencia pura, ciencia aplicada e higiene", Colombia, ciencia y tecnología, 19.1 (2001): 26-39. "Lepra e investigación bacteriológica en Colombia: los casos de Carrasquilla y de Lleras". Biomédica, 20.2 (2000): 181-89. “Sobre epidemias, endemias y epizootias: algunos aspectos del desarrollo de la bacteriología en Colombia”, Biomédica, 18.2 (1998): 109-121 "Lepra, exageración y autoridad médica Asclepio", Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia, 1998, L-2: 131-153. "Medicalización de la lepra: una estrategia nacional." Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura, 24 (1997): 139-165. "The Social Construction of Leprosy in Colombia, 1884-1939". Science, Technology and Society, 1.1 (1996): 1-23. Also published as: "La construction sociale de la lèpre en Colombie" (cf below). Chapters in books “Lèpre”, Dictionnaire de la pensée médicale, ed. por Dominique Lecourt (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2004), pp. 673-677. “The State, Physicians and Leprosy in Modern Colombia,” in Diego Armus (ed) Disease in the History of Modern Latin America. From Malaria to AIDS. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2003, pp. 130-157. “Juan de Dios Carrasquilla: lepra, ciencia y poder en Colombia a finales del siglo XIX”, Miguel Antonio Caro y la cultura de su época ed. Por Rubén Sierra Mejía (Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2002), pp. 369-386. "Debates sobre la lepra: médicos y pacientes interpretan lo universal y lo local". Culturas científicas y saberes locales: asimilaciones, hibridaciones y resistencias. Edited by Diana Obregón (Bogotá: CES/Universidad Nacional, 2000), pp. 258-282. "De la veterinaria a la bacteriología: Federico Lleras Acosta o la lucha por la construcción de una carrera científica en Colombia. Nacionalismo e internacionalismo en la historia de las ciencias y la tecnología en América Latina" (Memorias del IV Congreso Latinoamericano de Historia de las Ciencias y la Tecnología). Edited by Luis Carlos Arboleda and Carlos Osorio (Cali: Universidad del Valle, 1997), pp. 229-255. "La construction sociale de la lèpre en Colombie, 1884-1939. Les sciences hors d'Occident au XXe siècle" (Série sous la direction de Roland Waast) Vol. 4: Médicines et Santé, Anne-Marie Moulin, Scientific Editor. Paris: ORSTOM, 1996, pp. 159-175. "De 'árbol maldito' a 'enfermedad curable': los médicos y la construcción de la lepra en Colombia, 1884-1939". Salud, sociedad y cultura en América Latina: nuevas perspectivas históricas, Edited by Marcos Cueto (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1996), pp. 159-178.
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MARIA LEIDE W DE OLIVEIRA Federal University of RJ Lad. Tabajaras, 126/1008 Copacabana - RJ - 22 031 110 Brazil Tel / Fax: +55 21 2236 6832 Email: mleide@uol.com.br Bio Maria Leide W de Oliveira, MD, PhD, is head of the Hansen's Disease Program on Teaching, Referral Attendance and Research of the Medical School / University Hospital of the Federal University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has been working in the field of leprosy since 1975, as a local physician and state manager of RJ and was also in charge of the National Hansen's Disease Programme and responsible for MDT implementation in Brazil, from 1986-1990. She has recently begun working on Social Science research with two projects:- 1. History of leprosy in Brazil - together with colleagues from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Laurinda Maciel and Maria Eugenia Noviski Gallo): "History of the Last Thirty Years of Hansen's Disease in Brazil Through Personal Testimonies." The preparation of a book is proposed, continuing the Souza Araújo publications (Souza Araújo, Heraclides César de. História da Legislação Antileprosa da América do Sul no Período Colonial. Arquivos Mineiros de Leprologia, 21 (3):93-106, July 1961 and História da Lepra no Brasil: Período Republicano (1889-1946). Rio de Janeiro; Imprensa Nacional, 1948. 2. Social Representation of the two names for the disease in Brazil - Leprosy and Hansen's Disease (HD), or Hanseníase, in Portuguese. This project could also be considered as an historical approach to the new terminology and its incorporation during the last thirty years.
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SHUBHADA S PANDYA Address: Flat 11 "Shanti Kuteer" Netaji Subhash Road Mumbai 400 020 India Tel: +91 (22) 202 0007 Fax: +91(22) 283 2734 Email: shunil@vsnl.com Bio M.B.B.S., Mumbai University 1962. Research Officer specialising in Clinical Neurophysiology in Project on "Nerve Lesions in Leprosy", J.J.Hospital, Mumbai (1963-1971) (Part time) Research Officer at the Acworth Leprosy Hospital Society for Research, Rehabilitation and Education in Leprosy, Mumbai, 1971-1998. Former Consultant in Clinical Neurophysiology, Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences 1975-1998. Leprosy in India in the British colonial period, and up to the introduction of dapsone therapy. Special interest in Henry Vandyke Carter (1831-1897) of the Bombay Medical Service. Recently submitted a PhD thesis (in History) to Mumbai University entitled: "Leprosy in the Bombay Presidency, 1840-1897: Perceptions and Approaches to its Control". Possesses a small collection of colonial era material on leprosy in India, as photocopies, a few originals, and transcribed passages; also some copies of photographs. Recently been given scientific reprints and personal leprosy books (in German, French and English) belonging to Drs. Vasant Ramji Khanolkar, and Darab Dastur, leprosy pathologists. Also holds original papers, on leprosy experiments conducted in the 1940s and 1950s by Dr Raghavendra Row (1869-1952), given to Dr Pandya by his daughter Mrs Leela Dayal (deceased). Was Organising Secretary of the leprosy history meeting under the auspices of the Global Project on the History of Leprosy, held in Mumbai July 15-16, 2000. Compiled on request, a "History of the Indian Association of Leprologists", November 2001. Publications "Raking up the Past: James Robinson, Hindoostan and the Classification of Leprosy", Indian Journal of Leprosy. Forthcoming. "Very Savage Rites: Suicide and the Leprosy Sufferer in Nineteenth Century India", Indian Journal of Leprosy, 73 (2001): 29-38. "Leprosy Control in India: Historical Aspects", in R.G.Valia (ed) IADVL Textbook and Atlas of Dermatology. Indian Association of Dermatologists, Venereologists and Leprologists, 1994. "Anti-contagionism in Leprosy", International Journal of Leprosy, 66 (1998): 374-384. "An Anatomist in Leprosyland", International Journal of Leprosy, 65 (1997): 246-251. "Three Historical Figures in Leprosy in Bombay", in the Souvenir published on the occasion of the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the Indian Association of Leprologists, Mumbai, 1983. "Henry Vandyke Carter (1831-1897), Medical Artist and Scientist", Leprosy in India, 43 (1971): 19-23.
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BISWAMOY PATI Address: 47 Deshbandhu Apts, 15 Patparganj Delhi - 110 092 India Tel: +91 2272-2060; +91 2272-6540 Fax: +91 2611-8535 Email: biswamoy@del2.vsnl.net.in, biswamoypati@hotmail.com Publications Books Joint editorial project with Bhairabi Sahu and T. K.Venkatasubramanian entitled, Negotiating the Indian Past: Essays in Memory of Professor Partha Sarathi Gupta (Dr Pati's chapter: 'Negotiating with Dharma Pinnu: Towards a Social History of Smallpox in Colonial Orissa') - Tulika, New Delhi (November).Identity, Hegemony, Resistance: Towards a social history of conversions in Orissa, 1800-2000, Three Essays Collective, Delhi, 2003. Situating Social History: Orissa 1800 - 1997, Orient Longman, New Delhi, 2001. Biswamoy Pati & Mark Harrison (eds)Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Colonial India. Orient Longman, Delhi, 200. (Editor) Issues in Modern Indian History: For Sumit Sarkar, Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 2000. (Editor) Turbulent Times: India, 1940 - 44, Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1998. Resisting Domination: Peasants, Tribals and the National Movement in Orissa, 1920-1950, Manohar, Delhi, 1993. Chapters in Books "Subaltern Studies II: A Review article" in David Ludden (ed) Reading Subaltern Studies: Critical History, Contested Meaning and the Globalisation of South Asia. Permanent, Black, New Delhi, 2001. "Storm over Malkangiri: Laxman Naiko's Revolt (1942)" in Gyanendra Pandey (ed)The Indian Nation in 1942. K.P Bagchi & Sons, Calcutta, 1988. "Peasants, Tribals and the National Movement in Orissa 1920-1934" in Kapil Kumar (ed) Congress and Classes. Manohar, New Delhi, 1988. Biswamoy Pati has also published numerous papers and articles in publications such as Indian Historical Review, Times of India and Quarterly Review of Historical Studies. RELEVANT CONFERENCES 2003 - Organiser of a panel - 'From the private to the public? Leprosy in south Asia, 1850-2000' for the VI European Association for the History of Medicine and Health Conference on 'Health between the Private and the Public: Shifting Approaches, Oslo, 3-7 September. Biswamoy Pati's joint paper was entitled: 'The leprosy patient, society and history: Orissa 1900-1950'
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CLAUDIA PATRICIA PLATARRUEDA VANEGAS Email: cplatarrueda@hotmail.com Publications Platarrueda Vanegas, Claudia; and Agudelo Arévalo, Catherín. Ensayo de una bibliografía comentada sobre lepra y lazaretos en Colombia. Representaciones, prácticas y relaciones sociales . Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2004. Encuentros. Colleción Tesis Laureadas, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas. Platarrueda Vanegas, Claudia Patricia. La voz del proscrito o la exclusión desde adentro. Lepra y lazaretos en Colombia. Una interpretación antropológica. Tesis de la Maestría en Antropología Social. Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2006.
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RICARDO L PUNZALAN Instructor of Archival Studies Institute of Library and Information Science University of the Philippines Diliman Quezon City 1101 PHILIPPINES Website: http://www.ils.upd.edu.ph/ellis/ Tel. No.: (63-2) 920-5367 Museum Archivist Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City 1101 PHILIPPINES Website: http://www.vargasmuseum.org Tel.: (63-2) 928-1927 Fax: (63-2) 928-1925 Member, Steering Commitee (2004-2008), Section on Archival Education and Training (SAE) International Council on Archives (ICA) www.ica.org/sae Email: rpunzalan@up.edu.ph Bio In April 2005, Ricky Punzalan embarked on a project to organize and preserve the records of leprosy in the Philippines. Since then, he has been fully committed to specialising in the study of records related to leprosy, and in collaboration with Dr Arturo Cunanan, Sasakawa Memorial Health Foundation and the ILA Global Project on the History of Leprosy, he curated A Journey Into 100 Years of Culion , 6 May 2006 – present, Culion Museum and Archives . His ongoing research includes a doctorate on the "Memory of Segregation and Affliction: The Archives of the Culion Leper Colony" and "The Spanish Records and Recordkeeping Traditions in the Philippines". He has a Master of Library and Information Science and a Bachelor of Library Science from the Institute of Library and Information Science, University of the Philippines – Diliman. As an archival educator, he was elected to the Steering Committee of the Section on Archival Education and Training, International Council on Archives (ICA-SAE). He is also active in the Society of Filipino Archivists as Board Member and Chair of the Education Committee, where he is responsible for the development of workshop modules aimed at providing continuing professional education for archivists working in rural areas of the Philippines. He has over five years of experience in research in the field of archival studies. His current research endeavours include : (1) exploration of “record” and “record keeping” within the context of the museum's function of information management pertaining to collections and object documentation ; (2) the concept of archives in non-literate and oral societies of the Philippines; and (3) archival policies as instruments of colonization and how such policies are manifestations of the divergent colonial agenda of the Spanish and American regimes. He is embarking on a doctorate at the University of Michigan’s School of Information. Publications: The Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, Museums of Southeast Asia (Iola Lenzi, ed.) Archipelago Press, 2004. "Art and Archives: Featuring the Asian Art Archives", Art Manila, 5.3 (2004). "Waling Gorospe, An Artist Embracing IT", Art Manila, 5.2 (2004). "A French-Ifugao Artist at the Vargas Museum?", Diliman Update, 8.5 (August-October 2003). "Keeping Track of Orlina", Art Manila, 4.2 (2003). "Art Exchange: Komiks as Art", Art Manila , 4.2 (2003). "Artist on Record: Romulo Olazo", Art Manila, 4.1 (2003). "Alex Botelho: The Artist as Conservator", Art Manila, 3.11 (December 2002). "Code of Ethics for Filipino Archivists: A Rationale", Newsletter of the Society of Filipino Archivists, (January 2002). Articles Under Review for Publication "The Archives of the New Possession: the Fate of Spanish Colonial Records in the Philippines" Under the American Regime (Submitted to: Archival Science). "Cultural Diversity and Post-Colonial Realities: Challenges of Archival Training in the Philippines" (Submitted to: Archives and Manuscripts). "Records as Material Culture: Museum Documentation as Instrument of Representation" (Submitted to Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals).
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JAYADEV SAHU IEC Consultant, LEPRA India Shakti Nagar PO & Dist. Bargarh - 768028 Orissa State India Tel: +91 06646 31228 Fax: +91 06646 31846 Bio Dr Sahu has worked for the following institutions: Gandhi Memorial Leprosy Foundation Leprosy Control Units, Training Centres, and Health Education Unit in various capacities; LEPRA India as Training Officer, HE Co-ordinator and IEC Consultant. He has also worked in co-ordination with the government of Orissa as a member of: the State Leprosy Advisory Committee, the Policy Guidance Committee of NLEP and the State Rehabilitation Committee. He is the vice-president of the Isaac Santra Institute of Social Work and Community Health, Sambalpur and a member of the National Leprosy Organisation, India and Hind Kushta Niveran Sangh. He has introduced health education programmes on leprosy since 1964 to All India Radio, Cuttack and since 1976 to Television Base Production Centre, Cuttack for Satellite Instructional Television Education Programme (SITE). He has also published a large number of articles in Oriya newspapers and periodicals since 1964. Dr Sahu has presented many scientific papers in seminars and congresses, and has translated and published TALMILEP books into the Oriya language. He was the Organising Secretary for the First Orissa State Leprosy Workers Conference, Puri, in 1969 and has also been involved in the organisation of other workshops and courses. In 1993 he received the award for Best Leprosy Social Worker of India, presented by the Rotary International Club, Jatni. He holds a number of other awards, including the Gayatri Award, given by the Gandhi Memorial Leprosy Foundation, Wardha, in 2000 and the Dr Rajendra Prasad Gold Medal, awarded by the National Leprosy Organisation, India, in 2001. Thesis "One Hundred Years of Leprosy Work in Orissa: 1885-1984". 1989 Papers Presented at Congresses and Seminars "Care of eyes in leprosy", Indian Medical Association, Jeypore Branch, 2001 "Prevention of blindness in leprosy", Voluntary Health Association of India, New Delhi, 2000 "A Study on VRC in an Urban Area", Asian Congress, Agra, 2000 "Training of Leprosy in Medical Colleges", XIII International Leprosy Congress, Orlando, USA, 1989 "Leprosy is Increasing or Decreasing in Orissa", Third State Level Leprosy Conference, Bhubaneswar, 1984 "Physiotherapy in Rural Conditions", XV All India Leprosy Workers Conference, Baroda, 1976
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GERMILINA M SANTOS Artistic Director Galleria Duemilla 210 Loring Street Pasay City, Philippines Email: tsokolate_ah@yahoo.com Germilina M Santos is completing her MA in Art Studies in the Museum Studies program at the University of the Philippines Diliman. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Far Eastern University, the Philippines. She has worked for the Jorge B Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Centre as Museum Assistant and also for the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Art Collection, where she was responsible for cataloguing, condition reporting, and preventive conservation measures on the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma’s Art Collection. Her work on the Culion Museum and Archives as a Museum Exhibition Design Assistant has been provided in a voluntary capacity
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LOH KAH SENG Email: lkshis@gmail.com Loh Kah Seng is a PhD candidate at the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University. He has written and published on the official use of Singapore's history, the early 1930s Great Depression, the leftwing trade union movement, oral history, and leprosy. He has also conducted interviews with former leprosy sufferers in Silra Home, Singapore and Sungei Buloh, Malaysia. Relevant publications: "Silra Home Revisited" WHO Goodwill Ambassador's Newsletter for the Elimination of Leprosy. (22 Oct 2006): 4-5. "The Ambivalence of Relocation: The Experiences of Individuals Affected by Leprosy in Singapore" The STAR (Carville), 64.2 (July-December 2005): 9-14. "The Ambivalence of Relocation: The Experiences of Individuals Affected by Leprosy in Singapore" Translated into Japanese by Kay Yamaguchi. Seisho, 63.4 (2006): 23-30.
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THOMAS HUNTER SMITH University College Tulane University New Orleans Louisiana USA Tel: +1 504 865 5555 Fax: +1 504 865 5562 Email: THS3rd@aol.com Bio In 2000, Dr Thomas Hunter Smith received a post doctoral fellowship from Texas Christian University that allowed him to carry out research in the USA and Spain concerning the leprosy hospitals of colonial Spanish America. Over the past two years, he has conducted historical research at the United States Public Health leprosy facility at Carville, the Gillis W Long Hansen's Disease Center. Dissertation A Monument to Lazarus: The Evolution of the Leprosy Hospital of Rio de Janeiro (December 1999) Publications (Forthcoming) publication based on dissertation above.
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JAMES STAPLES Email: jamesstaples@onetel.com Bio James Staples is a lecturer in Social Anthropology at Brunel University (from January 2007), after nearly four years as a post-doctoral research fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. His doctoral research, also completed from SOAS (2003), was undertaken with a self-established settlement of leprosy-affected people in coastal Andhra Pradesh, South India and in Mumbai (formerly Bombay). Although many of the people he worked with were physically changed by leprosy and suffering the degenerative illnesses of old age, progress towards the World Health Organisation’s goal of eliminating leprosy had led to a corresponding decrease in funding available for their care. Against this background, his thesis (and subsequent monograph) argued that the historical and socio-cultural constitution of ‘the leper’ also provides those so defined with new opportunities to shape their social worlds. By focusing on institutions and practices (such as caste, Christianity and begging), which were identified by those he worked with as important, as well as the embodied experience of leprosy, the research explores how leprosy-affected people challenge existing power structures to represent themselves as a group with particular rights. James is also a trustee and elected Secretary of Bethany Village Leprosy Society (BVLS), a small UK-based charity supporting work with a self-established community of leprosy affected people in South India. (www.bethanyvillage.org.uk). Leprosy-related publications: Books (forthcoming, March 2007) Editor: Livelihoods at the Margins: Surviving the City, Walnut Creek , CA : Left Coast Press, Inc. Peculiar People, Amazing Lives. Leprosy, Social Exclusion And Community Making in South India. Delhi: Orient Longman, 2006. Articles and chapters (forthcoming, 2007) "When things are not as they seem: untangling the webs that hold together a South Indian NGO", in Smith, M (ed) Negotiating Boundaries and Borders: Qualitative Research On, In and For Development , Elsevier. (forthcoming, 2007) "The “leper” and the State in South India" Economic and Political Weekly (Online at www.epw.org.in) (forthcoming, March 2007) "Begging questions, leprosy and alms collection in Mumbai", in James Staples (ed) Livelihoods at the Margins: Surviving the City, Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, Inc. "Becoming a man: personhood and masculinity in a South Indian leprosy colony" Contributions to Indian Sociology, 39.2, (2005): 279-305 (ISSN 0069-9667). "Leprosy in South India: the paradox of disablement as enablement" Review of Disability Studies, 1.4 (2005): 13-28 ( ISSN 1553-3697 [Print]; 1552-9215 [Online]). "Delineating disease: self-management of leprosy identities in South India" Medical Anthropology, 23.1 (2004): 69-88. "Disguise, Revelation and Copyright: Disassembling the South Indian Leper" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.), 9 (2003): 295-315.
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ITALO TRONCA Email: tronca@uol.com.br Bio He is professor of the History of Brazil in the History Department of Unicamp, in Campinas, São Paulo. Until the 1980s, he had always worked on themes of the political history of Brazil. His doctoral thesis for the University of São Paulo was a study on the role of the military during the 'Estado Novo' [New State] (1937-1945), published in 1978. Previous to his entry into academia, he was a professional journalist for fourteen years, working for the Political section of Veja, the principal journal in the country, during the years of military dictatorship. In 1971, he published a book-report on the political repression - Pau-de-Arara. A violência militar no Brasil - pela Maspero e Siglo XX1 (Pau-de-Arara. The military violence in Brazil - under Maspero and the 21st Century). In recent years, he has been interested in cultural history, and discovered a medical archive containing records of leprosy patients in the State of São Paulo from the beginning of the politics of compulsory internment, in the 1920s until 1960. In 1987, he produced a video documentary - Lepra, o Espetáculo do Medo (Leprosy, the Spectacle of Fear), recorded inside the largest leper colony in São Paulo - Pirapitingui. In 1989, he received support from the Health Ministers of São Paulo and the Amazon to record another documentary - Amazônia Doente (Sick Amazonia) - in Paricatuba, near Manaus, the oldest leprosarium of the region. At the moment, he is working on a theory of historiographic narrative, crossing fiction and history, a method that he uses in his book on the history of leprosy. Publications As Máscaras do Medo. Lepraids, Editora da Unicamp. December 2000
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CASSANDRA WHITE Department of Anthropology and Geography Georgia State University Atlanta GA 30309 USA Tel: 1-404-651-1758 E-mail: cwhite@gsu.edu Bio Dr White completed her PhD in anthropology at Tulane University in 2001. Her dissertation title is "Cultural Aspects of Leprosy Treatment in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil." For this dissertation, she conducted research in 1998-1999 in Rio de Janeiro; she interviewed leprosy patients and health care workers and volunteers who worked with leprosy in order to understand some of the problems patients experienced with stigma and treatment. In 1996-1997, she interviewed patients, former patients, and staff at the former U.S. National Hansen's Disease Center at Carville, Louisiana, as part of a video/oral history project for the T. Harry Williams Oral History library at Louisiana State University. Dr White has given several papers about her fieldwork at conferences of the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology and recently, at the office of LEPRA in Colchester, England. She also helped coordinate interviews in Rio de Janeiro for the Discovery Channel documentary, Banished: Living with Leprosy (1999, Phyllis Ward, director). She is currently an assistant professor of anthropology at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, and is beginning work on a book based on her dissertation research. Publications (in review) "Explaining a Complex Disease Process: Talking to Patients about Leprosy in Brazil". Medical Anthropological Quarterly. (in prep.) "Visible and Invisible Marks: The Stigma of Leprosy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil". In Transgressive Surfaces: Dirt, Undress, and Difference in Comparative Perspective. Adeline Masquelier (ed.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press. "Carville and Curupaiti: Experiences of Confinement and Community". História, Ciências, Saúde - Manguinhos (journal of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro). vol. 10 (sup.), 2003. "Sociocultural considerations in the treatment of leprosy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil". Leprosy Review 73.4 (2002): 356-365. Book review of People are Not the Same: Leprosy and Identity in Twentieth Century Mali, by Eric Silla. Religious Studies Review 27.3 (2001): 309. "Physical and metaphorical confinement: The experience of Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) in the United States". Human Mosaic 30.1-2 (1996): 12-28. "An analysis of thalidomide use in treatment of leprosy reaction in Brazil". Human Mosaic, 29.1-2 (1996): 19-30.
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CORINNE SHEAR WOOD 721 Rosedale Avenue #9 Capitola CA 95010 USA Email: Corinnesw@cs.com Bio Dr Corinne Shear Wood was a Research Associate for the Leonard Wood Center for the Eradication of Leprosy at John Hopkins University in Maryland, USA from 1958 to 1961. Following this, she worked at the Riverside Community Hospital, carrying out hematology and chromosome analyses between 1962 and 1971. From 1968 to 1970 she also held the posts of Teaching Assistant and Physical Anthropology Laboratory Instructor at the University of California. She lectured for a year (1974-1975) at the University of California, and for the next twenty years held posts at California State University - Associate Professor (1973-1980), Coordinator of the Human Services Program (1981-1983), Professor in the Department of Anthropology (1983-1994). Since 1995, she has held a professorship in the Department of Anthropology at Cabrillo Community College in Santa Cruz, California. Publications Books Leprosy, the Next to Go, in progress Leprosy, an Annotated Bibliography, Mellen Publishers, New York, 1997 Human Sickness and Health: A Biocultural View, Mayfield Publishing Company, 1979 Papers and Articles "Women, Sexuality, and Leprosy", Leprosy in India, XI.1 (1992): 37-44. Book review: Leprosy, Racism and Public Health: Social Policy in Chronic Disease Control, by Zachary Gussow, in American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 82.3 (1990): 389. With Dennis Mull - "Culture and Compliance Among Leprosy Patients in Pakistan", Social Science and Medicine, 29.7 (1989): 799-811. In addition to the above, Corinne Shear Wood has a large number of other papers and articles published regarding other issues in health and medicine. Presentations "Leprosy and the Social Sciences", Physicians' Association, Riverside County, California, USA. 1989 "Compliance Concerns", XIII International Leprosy Conference, Den Haag, Netherlands. 1988 "Problems of Compliance Among Leprosy Patients in Pakistan", American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1987 In addition to the above, she has presented many other papers in fields such as anthropology, public health and medicine.

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