"The island of living hope" leprosy erdaication publicity in the late American colonial Philippines
This article examines leprosy eradication discourses in the American colonial Philippines. It argues that narratives about leprosy treatment became a site for negotiating political claims over medical authority during heightened nationalist sentiment in the 1920s and 1930s. As Filipino physicians le...
| Published in: | Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Vol. 73, no. 4 (2025), 421-446 |
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