"Essentially Christian, eminently philanthropic": The Mission to Lepers in British India

Joseph, Daniel

doi:10.1590/s0104-59702003000400012

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“…Mission to Lepers was the first missionary group founded uniquely to serve leprosy sufferers (Joseph, 2003). Their contribution started in British India and then expanded to other regions such as China.…”

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“…This 'missionary model' inspires the forthcoming humane leprosarium evolution in the 1920s, including BELRA's leprosarium scheme. There are studies on the eminent Mission to Lepers, such as Kakar (1996), Buckingham (2002), Joseph (2003), andRobertson (2009). However, the architectural and planning idea of the missionary organizations, which is disparate from the conventional leprosy institutions established since the medieval time, has yet to be studied.…”

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“…Prior to this revelation that leprosarium should be attractive to persuade leprosy sufferers to admit themselves voluntarily, missionary organizations have been establishing humane leprosarium that mirrors a home rather than an institution. There are studies on the eminent Mission to Lepers, such as Kakar (1996), Buckingham (2002), Joseph (2003), and Robertson (2009. However, the architectural and planning idea of the missionary organizations, which is disparate from the conventional leprosy institutions established since the medieval time, has yet to be studied.…”

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The Dawn of Humane Leprosy Segregation: Transforming Leprosarium into Home

Lim

2017

Int J. of BES

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Leprosarium or leprosy asylum has always been associated with cruel segregation of leprosy sufferers from the society. However, humane approach was suggested in the international arena in 1923 to reform the former unsympathetic compulsory segregation to make leprosy sufferers “human” again. Prior to this revelation that leprosarium should be attractive to persuade leprosy sufferers to admit themselves voluntarily, missionary organizations have been establishing humane leprosarium that mirrors a home rather than an institution. There are studies on the eminent Mission to Lepers, such as Kakar (1996), Buckingham (2002), Joseph (2003), and Robertson (2009). However, the architectural and planning idea of the missionary organizations, which is disparate from the conventional leprosy institutions established since the medieval time, has yet to be studied. The aim of this paper is to identify the idea and principles of humane segregation in leprosarium practiced by missionary organizations, especially the influential leprosarium model by Mission to Lepers. It is carried out through content analysis on missionary books, reports and biographies, leprosy journals, newspapers, drawings, and photographs. The analysis enables the identification of unique spatial planning and built form of missionary leprosarium model. The findings showed that missionary leprosarium model imitates the natural village to create a sense of home for leprosy sufferers, and self-sustainable in character. Missionary leprosaria are also community-driven and semi-autonomous. All this has accredited missionary leprosy organizations as the forerunner in humane leprosarium design that thrives in the 1920s to 1930s. This study would be able to help us to understand how architecture was utilized as a tool in disease prevention yet aspired to preserve the humanity among leprosy outcasts. Further research can be done to enhance the study such as human perception and psychology towards the architectural design of leprosarium and the socio-cultural impact on the residence as well as the society.

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The Dawn of Humane Leprosy Segregation: Transforming Leprosarium into Home

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2017

Int J. of BES

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“…Conflitos de interesses à parte, esse grupo de especialistas patrocinado pela mais alta camada da elite britânica passou por cima da associação de classe existente, criando o seu grupo seleto de pesquisadores médicos especialistas em hanseníase, que iriam atuar no combate à "lepra indiana". O grupo lançou uma revista cientifica periódica, o "Journal of the Leprosy Investigation Committee" onde publicaria suas produções científicas.7 Por exemplo, camadas da elite feminina foram recrutadas para atividades de benemerência por iniciativa da esposa de um oficial britânico que trabalhava na Índia(JOSEPH, 2003). Em 1874 fundaram e sustentaram a The Leprosy Mission, que prestava assistência médica, econômica e educacional na colônia e ainda hoje se mantém em atividade (https:// leprosymission.org/about-us/).…”

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As Ongs No Campo Da Hanseníase E a Agencia Do Paciente

Bakirtzief,

Mayer

2024

Ciência, Cuidado E Saúde: Contextualizando Saberes

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Este artigo discorre as condições de agência e de reconhecimento do paciente de hanseníase a partir de um recorte institucional conforme os conceitos de campos científicos, bens simbólicos e habitus da sociologia de Pierre Bourdieu. Ele se baseia em fontes discursivas relacionadas nos Index Medicus e Catalogue, PUBMED, artigos e registros da historiografia da lepra publicada pela FIOCRUZ em 2003 e em fontes primárias sobre os congressos e simpósios nacionais e internacionais da hanseníase desde 1897. O artigo apresenta a configuração do campo institucional e científico da hanseníase e descreve as diversas organizações envolvidas na hanseníase e suas relações de influência na produção de conhecimentos, práticas e técnicas do campo. Discute as possibilidades de agência do paciente e de reconhecimento nesse campo.

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Woolf¹

2010

Virginia Woolf’s Bloomsbury, Volume 1

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Of the one or two questions in life that I prefer to duck, perhaps the most frequent comes from the daunting and amiable creature, the Bloomsbury enthusiast. What was she like? they ask.In an essay on Dr Johnson's friend Mrs Hester Thrale -one of the last things she wrote -Virginia says "The more we know of people, the less we can sum them up. Just as we think we hold the bird in our hand, the bird flutters off". You won't be surprised when I tell you that it never crossed my mind, all those years ago, that one day I should have to stand up in front of an illustrious audience, some of them 'Woolf specialists', and add my two cents worth to the Niagara of words about those pivotal members of Bloomsbury, Leonard and Virginia Woolf. I wonder if, by an effort of imagination, we can go back mentally nearly seventy years to the late 1930s, the eve of the Second World War. Let us visit the small Sussex village of Rodmell where Leonard and Virginia had their country house. Most of the village consists of The Street, as it is called, which runs off the main Lewes-Newhaven road. On either side, The Street is lined with flint garden walls, behind which are cottages, most of which are inhabited by farm workers. This is a time before Rodmell, like so many such villages, became gentrified dormitories, whose residents commute daily to London. Then it had a Post Office, a general store, a blacksmiths and a pub. Only the pub has survived. After a few minutes' walk we reach a long, two-storey clapboard house on the right which lies a few yards back from the road. Pushing open the garden gate of Monks House is the signal for what seems like a pack of furiously barking dogs to descend upon us. A brick path leads past the end of the house to a huge garden and orchard. The garden is a kind of patchwork quilt of trees, shrubs, flowers, vegetables, fruit, roses and crocus merging into cabbages and gooseberry bushes. Here and there are fish ponds and peeping from the undergrowth are garden statues. From one of the several greenhouses my uncle emerges to welcome us. He is delighted to see us. Knowing what children are like, on arrival, he fumbles in a capacious pocket and produces a bag of his favourite mint humbugs.Leonard is in his sixties, tall, lean, tanned and with a shock of silver hair. His eyes are grey, deep-set under bushy eyebrows and his face is deeply lined. His head, which juts forward, is chiselled, long and spare: he has the rugged profile of an Old Testament prophet smoking a pipe. He is wearing ancient corduroy trousers and a poacher jacket of coarse tweed. His shoes are heavy and made of good leather, like Mr Ramsay's, and one notices that round his woollen tie is an opal ring. His voice is very tremulous -the voice of a man perhaps twenty years older. I almost forgot to tell you that on his shoulder is perched a tiny monkey, a marmoset called Mitzi. I grew very fond of Mitzi.He takes one round, proudly showing his Worcester Permains, Cox's Orange Pippins, his prize marrows, the extensive collection of succulents, the p...

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"Essentially Christian, eminently philanthropic": The Mission to Lepers in British India

Cited by 6 publications

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The Dawn of Humane Leprosy Segregation: Transforming Leprosarium into Home

The Dawn of Humane Leprosy Segregation: Transforming Leprosarium into Home

As Ongs No Campo Da Hanseníase E a Agencia Do Paciente

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