The Grammar of Leprosy: Temporal Politics and the Impossible Subject

This research article critically interrogates the implications and unintended consequences of the World Health Organization’s purported elimination of leprosy as a public health problem. I explore how leprosy has been portrayed (for nearly a century) as something from the past, recalcitrantly linger...

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Published inMedicine Anthropology Theory Vol. 8; no. 3; pp. 1 - 26
Main Author Meek, Laura A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Edinburgh Library 28.09.2021
Subjects
disease elimination
grammar
leprosy
tanzania
temporal politics
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