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  title info:
    title: Carville's cure
    sub title: leprosy, stigma, and the fight for justice
  name:
    name part: Fessler, Pam
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 348 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of 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.
  note: Pam Fessler.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-la
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Louisiana Leper Home.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States Marine Hospital No. 66 (Carville, La.)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Public Health Service Hospital at Carville, La.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Louisiana Leper Home.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States Marine Hospital No. 66 (Carville, La.)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Public Health Service Hospital at Carville, La.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center (U.S.)
  subject:
    topic: Leprosy
    topic: Patients
    geographic: Louisiana
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Leprosy
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Leper Colonies
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Leprosy
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: History, 19th Century
  subject:
    topic: History, 20th Century
  classification: RC154.5.L8 F47 2020
  classification: 362.19699/8009763
  identifier: 9781631495038
  identifier: 1631495038
  identifier: 9781631495045
  identifier: 2020008057
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200218
    record change date: 20210728140659.0
    record identifier: in00004396570