Prognosis in Leprosy

Cochrane, R. G.

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“…The editor of the Leprosy Review began its first issue in 1930 by stating that: 'the disfigurement that the disease produces in the later stages, the deformities that so often result, and the social stigma attached to the leper, all make it of utmost importance that something more than mere eradication of the disease should be the aim'. 73 This 'something more' was the elimination of leprosy's stigma. While leprosy control policies initially involved segregating leprosy sufferers as in-patients, which often increased local stigmatisation of the disease, the discovery of an effective treatment for leprosy in the late 1940s paved the way for later community outreach programmes that more successfully sensitised communities about leprosy.…”

Section: The Role Of Suffering In Secular Humanitarianismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…8 Many of these charitable societies were religious in character, and mission societies in particular were some of the largest nineteenth-century charities. 9 The predominantly religious leprosy charities founded in the 1870s and 1890s can be seen as a part of the larger growth of Victorian charities, which looked to promote welfare, civilisation, and Christianity in England and abroad.…”

Section: Leprosy's Emergence As a Humanitarian Cause In The British Ementioning

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Gnawing Pains, Festering Ulcers and Nightmare Suffering: Selling Leprosy as a Humanitarian Cause in the British Empire,c. 1890–1960

Vongsathorn¹

2012

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

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When British attention was drawn to the issue of leprosy in the Empire, humanitarian organisations rose to take on responsibility for the 'fight against leprosy'. In an effort to fundraise for a distant cause at a time when hundreds of charities competed for the financial support of British citizens, fundraisers developed propaganda to set leprosy apart from all other humanitarian causes. They drew on leprosy's relationship with Christianity, its debilitating symptoms, and the supposed vulnerability of leprosy sufferers in order to mobilise Britain's sense of humanitarian, Christian, and patriotic duty. This article traces the emergence of leprosy as a popular imperial humanitarian cause in modern Britain and analyses the narratives of religion, suffering, and disease that they created and employed in order to fuel their growth and sell leprosy as a British humanitarian cause.From the late nineteenth century, medicine became one of the most prominent humanitarian causes in the British Empire. 1 This medicine was provided primarily by missionaries, and although medical mission was first and foremost an evangelical endeavour, many missionaries also believed that healing the body was a humanitarian responsibility as important as the evangelical imperative to heal the soul. 2 As colonialism expanded, British missions devoted increasingly large proportions of their resources to the promotion of health in the mission field, which primarily lay in the Empire. 3

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Section: The Role Of Suffering In Secular Humanitarianismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Leprosy's Emergence As a Humanitarian Cause In The British Ementioning

confidence: 99%