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Missionary Women, Leprosy and Indigenous Australians, 1936-1986 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Missionary Women, Leprosy and Indigenous Australians, 1936-1986 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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This book focuses on twentieth-century Australian leprosaria to
explore the lives of indigenous patients and the Catholic women
missionaries who nursed them. Distinguished from previous
historical studies of leprosy, the book examines the care and
management of the incarcerated, enabling a broader understanding of
their experience, beyond a singular trope of banishment, oppression
and death. From the 1930s until the 1980s, respective governments
appointed the trained sisters to four leprosaria across remote
northern Australia, where almost two thousand people had been
removed from their homes and detained under law for years -
sometimes decades. The book traces the sisters' holistic nursing
from early efforts of amelioration and palliation to their part in
the successful treatment of leprosy after World War II. It reveals
the ways the sisters stepped out of their assigned roles and
attempted to shape the institutions as places of health and
hygiene, of European culture and education, and of Christianity.
Making use of accounts from patients, doctors; bureaucrats;
missionary men; and Indigenous families and communities, the book
offers fresh perspectives on two important strands of history.
First, its attention to the day-to-day work of the Australian
sisters helps to demystify leprosy healthcare by female
missionaries, generally. Secondly, with the sisters specifically
caring for Indigenous people, this book exposes the institutional
practices and goals specific to race relations of both the
Australian government and Catholic missionaries. An important and
timely read for anyone interested in Indigenous history, medical
history and the connections between race, religion and healthcare,
this book contextualizes the twentieth-century leprosy epidemic
within Australia's broader colonial history.
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