People Are Not The Same: Leprosy and Identity in Twentieth-Century Mali by Eric Silla

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People Are Not The Same: Leprosy and Identity in Twentieth-Century Mali by Eric SillaISBN: 0852556306 James Currey (January 1, 1998) Soft Cover, 220 pages This text draws upon an extensive collection of life histories to elaborate the perspectives of patients themselves who suffer from leprosy in Mali. It describes the transformation of leper identities with changes in medical and social responses to the disease. By situating seemingly local experiences of patients within the larger context of national and global change, the author

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In these portraits of lives aching for meaning and redemption