by Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp
Department of Anthropology & Center for Disability Studies, New York University
In the spirit of this blog’s dedication to “disability histories for the present,” we use this post to reflect on the future of disability publics in the United States, more than a quarter century after the passage of the Americans...
June 29, 2017
June 15, 2017
Leprosy, Heritage, and Art: Histories of Exile in a World Perspective
Posted on June 15, 2017
By Patrick Devlieger
Leprosy is an ancient disease that pertains to most all regions of the world at some point in time.
In the Western context, it may be a disease of the far or recent
past, while in some countries in Asia and Africa, the disease has
still a lot of currency. Nowadays, the world seems to be starkly
divided between parts of the world...
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