Chronic Isolation: Experiencing a Cured Disease at the Leprosarium of Tichilești
Journal Title: Martor. The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review - Year 2015, Vol 20, Issue 20
Abstract
The inhabitants of the Tichilești leprosarium experienced medical isolation caused by a medically cured body; once an individual was diagnosed with leprosy, he would be confined for his whole life inside this institution. Thus, former leprosy sufferers had to cope with the medicalization of their daily life while making sense of a socially incurable illness that disrupted their regular life-trajectories.
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Andrei Mihail
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