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Strategic Information and Research Development Centre. 2009. Trade paperback. Fine.. 151 p. Includes: illustrations, index, bibliography. . Making and Unmaking the Asylum recounts the entangled stories of leprosy in colonial and postcolonial Malaya/Malaysia and Singapore-decades of heavy-handed biomedical policies and laws enacted in the name of modernity, science and development, interwoven with the personal accounts of those who were sent to the asylums. The leprosarium was a living hell for many. It is also no coinncidence, Loh argues, that the majority of patients were poor and working-class. Yet this book also richly demonstrates how patients resisted being victims-creating new families, forging friendships, working, joining unions, and actively engaging in their communal religious and cultural lives. Having struggled to remake the asylums into homes, ex-sufferers in both countries have been evicted or moved again, their personal and collective histories erased and their real homes exchanged for…
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Making and Unmaking the Asylum: Leprosy and Modernity in Singapore and Malaysia Paperback - 2009
by Loh Kah Seng
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- Title Making and Unmaking the Asylum: Leprosy and Modernity in Singapore and Malaysia
- Author Loh Kah Seng
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- Publisher Strategic Information and Research Development Centre
- Date 2009
- ISBN 9789833782765
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Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: Strategic Information And Research Development Centre, 2009. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. A moving history of the treatment of leprosy in colonial and post colonial Malaysia and Singapore. Despite the often brutal policies of exclusion from society, the author demonstrates how leprosy sufferers were able to create families, forge relationships and live a sort of life resembling normality. Very Good Paperback. First Edition. 151 pages with an index, bibliography and some black and white plates. Weight 0.5kg. Post free within Malaysia The cover has minimal wear. The first and last three pages have light spotting. Otherwise The binding is tight, the text is clear and there is minimal tanning throughout.
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