Images of Leprosy

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  • Images of Leprosy Book Detail

  • Author : Christine M. Boeckl
  • Release Date : 2011-03-01
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Genre : Medical
  • Pages : 313
  • ISBN 13 : 1612480306
  • File Size : 67,67 MB

Images of Leprosy by Christine M. Boeckl PDF Summary

Book Description: From biblical times to the onset of the Black Death in the fourteenth century, leprosy was considered the worst human affliction, both medically and socially. Only fifty years ago, leprosy, or Hansen’s disease, was an incurable infectious illness, and it still remains a grave global concern. Recently, leprosy has generated attention in scholarly fields from medical science to the visual arts. This interdisciplinary art-historical survey on lepra and its visualization in sculpture, murals, stained glass, and other media provides new information on the history of art, medicine, religion, and European society. Christine M. Boeckl maintains that the various terrifying aspects of the disease dominated the visual narratives of historic and legendary figures stricken with leprosy. For rulers, beggars, saints, and sinners, the metaphor of leprosy becomes the background against which their captivating stories are projected.

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Images of Leprosy

Images of Leprosy

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Images of Leprosy

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Leprosy in Colonial South India

Leprosy in Colonial South India

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Leprosy is a neglected topic in the burgeoning field of the history of medicine and the colonized body. Leprosy in Colonial South India is not only a history of