Meet the Author: Pam Fessler

When:
Thursday, Sep 10, 2020 6:00p -
7:00p

Where:
Online event
Online
Boston, MA 02116

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
History, Lectures & Conferences, Virtual & Streaming

Event website:
https://www.americanancestors.org/American-Inspiration-Author-Series

American Ancestors/NEHGS together with the Boston Public Library and the State Library of Massachusetts present another virtual event in the American Stories, Inspiration Today author series.


Acclaimed broadcast journalist Pam Fessler writes about the largely forgotten history of leprosy in the United States– its impact on patients and their families, doctors, and, particularly, the swampy bayou town of Carville, Louisiana, where a “leprosarium” was established in 1894.


Carville evolved into a nexus for research and “treatment” that came at a huge personal cost to liberty as patients were stripped of their names, their rights, and their dignity. Understood today to be one of the least infectious diseases in the world, leprosy, now called Hansen’s disease, instilled a pandemic-sized level of fear and reaction from public health authorities well into the 20th century. Fessler will discuss her chronicle of how America treated, contained, and demonized its sufferers before wiser heads prevailed.

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