| An Archive of Skin, an Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making During Medical Incarceration Volume 62 Contributor(s): Imada, Adria L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520343840 ISBN-13: 9780520343849 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2022 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) - Medical | History - Health & Fitness | Diseases - Skin |
| Dewey: 616.998 |
| LCCN: 2021038202 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.30 lbs) 385 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What was the longest and harshest medical quarantine in modern history and how did people survive it? Beginning in 1866, men, women, and children in Hawai i suspected of having leprosy were removed from their families. Most were sentenced over the next century to lifelong exile at an isolated settlement. Thousands of photographs taken of their skin provided forceful, if conflicting, evidence of disease and disability for colonial health agents. And yet, a competing knowledge system of kinship and collectivity emerged during this incarceration. An Archive of Skin, an Archive of Kin shows how exiled people pieced together their own intimate archives of care and companionship through unanticipated adaptations of photography. |