Parascandola J
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD 20857.
Med Secoli. 1998;10(1):111-25.
Leprosy is a disease which has long been stigmatized and persons afflicted with it have frequently been segregated from the rest of society. This paper focuses on the evolution of policies concerning the confinement of patients at the national leprosarium operated by the United States Public Health Service (PHS) at Carville, Louisiana. After a brief review of the origins of the Lousiana Leper Home, which eventually became the national leprosarium, the paper traces changing attitudes and policies at Carville from 1921, when the PHS took control of the facility, to the 1950s.
麻风病是一种长期遭受污名化的疾病，患者常常被与社会其他人群隔离开来。本文聚焦于美国公共卫生服务局（PHS）在路易斯安那州卡维尔运营的国家麻风病院对患者隔离政策的演变。在简要回顾了最终成为国家麻风病院的路易斯安那麻风病院的起源后，本文追溯了从1921年PHS接管该机构到20世纪50年代卡维尔不断变化的态度和政策。
