An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin

An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin
Author: Adria L. Imada
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2022-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520975200

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.

Seeing Her Sex

Seeing Her Sex
Author: Roberta McGrath
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2002
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780719041679

"Seeing Her Sex" questions how the visual representation of women has been used to remove women's bodies from varying discourses, especially in relation to the matter of generation and reproduction.