References:

 

Pictures

 

Disabled Village Children: Leprosy, http://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/english/global/david/dwe002/dwe00228.htm

 

Global Project on the History of Leprosy, http://www.leprosyhistory.org/graphics/gallery/burma2.jpg

 

Leprosy in Suriname, http://www.eljee.com/gallery/slideshow.php?set_albumName=album03

 

World Heath Organization: MediaCentre, http://www.who.int/multimedia/indiaweb/galleryhealth/leprosy/photolepro_underpage.html

 

Wood, John, Art and Medicine, http://www.artandmedicine.com/wood/Leprosy.html

 

 

Text

 

American Leprosy Missions, http://www.leprosy.org/index.html

 

BBC News, Asia-Pacific, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4311679.stm, 3/2/2005

 

Center for Disease Control, Disease Listing, HansenÕs Disease: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/hansens_t.htm

 

Estrada, Benjamin, Leprosy, http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic1296.htm, 2006

 

Gaudet, Marcia, Telling It Slant: Personal Narrative, Tall Tales, and the Reality of Leprosy, Western Folklore, Vol. 49, No. 2. (Apr., 1990), pp. 191-207

 

Gussow, Zachary and George S. Tracy, The Use of Archival Materials in the Analysis and Interpretation of Field Data: A Case Study in the Institutionalization of the Myth of Leprosy as "Leper",  American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 73, No. 3. (Jun., 1971), pp. 695-709.

 

HHMIÕs BioInteractive: http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/disease/leprosy/index.html

 

Manchester, Keith and Charlotte Roberts, The Palaeopathology of Leprosy in Britain: A Review, World Archaeology, Vol. 21, No. 2, The Archaeology of Public Health. (Oct., 1989), pp. 265-272.

 

McEwen, Ernest L., The Leprosy of the Bible in Its Medical Aspect, The Biblical World, Vol. 38, No. 3. (Sep., 1911), pp. 194-202

 

The New York Times International Thursday 5 July 2001, http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/prisons/the_leper_of_somes_island.htm

 

World Health Organization: Leprosy Today, http://www.who.int/lep/en/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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