Leprosy and Stigma in the South Pacific: Camaraderie in Isolation.
The oral histories utilized by this research reveal the experiences of those who suffered leprosy in five South Pacific nations, Fiji, New Caledonia, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu. This thesis explores how leprosy and its stigma impacted on the lives of these people, some of whom suffered decades of isol...
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University of Canterbury. School of Humanities
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2913 |