Squint : my journey with leprosy /
Ramirez recalls being taken from his family in a hearse and thrown into a world filled with fear. He and his loved ones struggled against the stigma associated with the term "leper" and against beliefs that the disease was a punishment from God, that his illness was highly communicable, an...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2009
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| Series: | Willie Morris books in memoir and biography.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
