'A paradise among leprosariums': Hansen's disease and affective containment in the Panama Canal Zone.
The Panama Canal Zone's American administration established Palo Seco Leper Colony in 1907 in order to contain individuals with Hansen's disease. Yet containment was never a simple strategy. This article argues that American observers used rhetoric to transmute their fear of Hansen's disease into pi...
| Publicado en: | Postcolonial Studies Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 36 - 59 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2024
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