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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Fessler, Pam, author.     Subjects     Louisiana Leper Home.     United States Marine Hospital No. 66 (Carville, La.)     Public Health Service Hospital at Carville, La.     Leprosy -- Patients -- Louisiana -- History.     Leprosy -- United States -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Fessler, Pam, author.       by title:      Carville's cure : le...         MARC Display

Carville's cure : leprosy, stigma, and the fight for justice / Pam Fessler. by Fessler, Pam, author. New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2020] Subjects Louisiana Leper Home.   United States Marine Hospital No. 66 (Carville, La.)   Public Health Service Hospital at Carville, La.   Leprosy -- Patients -- Louisiana -- History.   Leprosy -- United States -- History. ISBN:  9781631495038 (hardcover) 1631495038 (hardcover) Description:  x, 348 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Prologue -- Exile -- God versus germs -- Rescue mission -- Rebellion -- "What have I got, doctor-- leprosy?" -- Finding a home -- Ripped apart -- "Nun nurses" -- Jail within a jail -- The hole in the fence -- Search for a cure -- Until leprosy do us part -- The miracle -- Fighting for freedom -- Not bright enough -- "It's Tallulah, darling" -- Human touch -- An era ends -- Discrimination -- Shutting down -- Lessons not learned -- Epilogue. Requests:  1 Summary:  "The unknown story of the only leprosy colony in the continental United States, and the thousands of Americans who were exiled--hidden away with their "shameful" disease. Between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, the Mississippi River curls around an old plantation thick with trees, with a stately white manor house at its heart. Locals knew it as Carville--the site of the only leprosarium in the continental United States from 1894 until 1999, where generations of afflicted Americans were isolated, often until death. While experts today know that leprosy is not nearly as contagious as once feared, there remains a virulent stigma around those who suffer from it. Pam Fessler tells the story of Carville's patients against the backdrop of America's slowly shifting attitudes toward those cast aside as "others." She also reveals how patients rallied together with an unlikely team of nuns, researchers, and doctors to find a cure for the disease, and to fight the insidious stigma that surrounded it. With original interviews and newly discovered archival material, Fessler presents an essential history of one of America's most shameful secrets"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 362.19699 Fe Item being held Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 362.19699 Fe Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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