[PDF.20my] Out of the Shadow of Leprosy: The Carville Letters and Stories of the Landry Family

Out of the Shadow of Leprosy: The Carville Letters and Stories of the Landry Family

[PDF.oh62] Out of the Shadow of Leprosy: The Carville Letters and Stories of the Landry Family

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 | #2082015 in Books |  University Press of Mississippi |  2013-04-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.69 x5.98l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 211 pages

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||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!|By abbysinger|Finally, the story is out about a family who endured the loss of a husband, father and grandfather who had the misfortune to contract Hansen's Disease. This was a deep, dark family secret even to those of us who knew them well.

Ms. Manes does a thorough job of sharing with her readers a thought provoking and heartbreaking true stor| ||“In eloquent prose, Claire Manes tells the touching and tragic story of her grandfather, Edmund, and his four siblings, who contracted one of the most feared diseases in history: leprosy. Manes draws upon her grandfather's letters, discovered years afte

In 1924 when thirty-two-year-old Edmond Landry kissed his family good-bye and left for the leprosarium in Carville, Louisiana, leprosy, now referred to as Hansen's Disease, stigmatized and disfigured but did not kill. Those with leprosy were incarcerated in the federal hospital and isolated from family and community. Phones were unavailable, transportation was precarious, and fear was rampant. Edmond entered the hospital (as did his four other siblings), but he did no...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Out of the Shadow of Leprosy: The Carville Letters and Stories of the Landry Family   |  Claire Manes. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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