An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration

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Adria L. Imada

An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin

Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration

Adria L. Imada

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English

University of California Press
01 February 2022

History of the Americas; History of medicine; Dermatology; Coping with illness; Local history

Series: American Crossroads

What was the longest and harshest medical quarantine in modern history, and how did people survive it? In Hawaiʻi beginning in 1866, men, women, and children 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 among these exiled people, a competing knowledge system of kinship and collectivity emerged during their incarceration. This book shows how they pieced together their own intimate archives of care and companionship through unanticipated adaptations of photography.

By: Adria L. Imada
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 62
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9780520343849
ISBN 10: 0520343840
Series: American Crossroads
Pages: 385
Publication Date: 01 February 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Adria L. Imada is Professor of History at University of California, Irvine, and author of the award-winning Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire.