A Disease Apart:

 Leprosy in the Modern World

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 Tony Gould

A sweeping history of the prejudices about and treatment of leprosy over the last two hundred years. The story is based mainly on the efforts of a whole range of doctors, nurses and missionaries, who, once it was established that the disease was infectious, rather than hereditary, did so much to bring the sufferers into a more understanding society. Good Hardback in a Good Dust Jacket 420 pages with a bibliography and index. 

Weight 1kg. Post free within Malaysia

Published by St. Martin's Press, New York. 2005. ISBN: 9780312305024