Article ID: CBB687936815

Leprosy's Untainted Child (2018)

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In the face of an obdurate disease, the Mission to Lepers made a virtue out of "saving" children from leprosy and from paganism by separating them from their parents so that they became a source of publicity, sponsorship, and fund-raising. This policy transformed a benevolent work of mercy into a professional one, for it soon became clear that children separated from their parents did not develop leprosy. Consequently, the asylum became a site where scientific conclusions were made about the transmission of the disease, and the authority of the mission was enhanced at international medical conferences. This nascent professionalism became sufficient for the Philippines to also be persuaded to remove children from their leprosy-infected parents. In turn, Culion-based research on the observations of children ensured the authority of the American and Philippine doctors in informing decisions made by the League of Nations and later the World Health Organization.

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Authors & Contributors
Bhattacharya, Sanjoy
Vandenberg, Helen
Martin, Wanda
Diokno, Maria Serena I.
Ens, Andrea
Dietrich Leurer, Marie
Concepts
Public health
Medicine and government
Prevention and control of disease
Disease and diseases
Medicine and politics
Smallpox
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
Early modern
Medieval
Places
United States
Philippines
India
Africa
Saskatchewan (Canada)
Bhutan
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
UNICEF
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
League of Nations
World Bank
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