| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Book Review

Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States. By Michelle T. Moran. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv, 280 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3145-8. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5839-4.)
Colonizing Leprosy ably traces how two facilities came to embody America's search for a national policy to deal with leprosy (Hansen's disease) and how changes at those facilities in the care and management of the disease were heavily influenced by the attitudes of a country at the apogee of its imperial ambitions.	1
The physical manifestations of leprosy policy were the late nineteenth-century settlement at Kalaupapa on the Hawaiian island of Molokai and, in the early twentieth century, the federal leprosarium at Carville, Louisiana. Popular knowledge of the Molokai story rests on the hagiography of Father Damien, making Michelle T. Moran's account a much-needed corrective. The American colonial takeover of Hawaii brought with it assumptions of the superiority of Western morals over those of the "unclean" and "uncivilized," and of Western medicine over Hawaiian conceptions of community and care. "Imperialism" is, indeed, the appropriate historical context.	. . .

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