Squint: my journey with leprosy
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1. Verfasser: Ramirez, José P. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Jackson University Press of Mississippi ©2009
Schriftenreihe:Willie Morris books in memoir and biography
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-220)
No one told you? -- The journey -- Treatment at last -- Learning about Carville -- LIfe at Carville -- Four months and counting -- First visit to Laredo -- Manhood and beyond -- The magic of dreaming -- The power of motherly love -- Life after death -- The road to advocacy -- Change is good -- Living with a clean soul -- Commonly asked questions
Ramirez recalls being taken from his family in a hearse and thrown into a world filled with fear. He and his loved ones struggled against the stigma associated with the term "leper" and against beliefs that the disease was a punishment from God, that his illness was highly communicable, and that persons with Hansen's disease had to be banished from their communities
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 220 pages, [8] pages of plates)
ISBN:9781604733396
160473339X
1604731192
9781604731194

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