People with leprosy (Hansen’s disease) during the Middle Ages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12007236 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Herbert C Covey (University of Colorado Boulder, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 315-321 |
| Publication date | 2001-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Social Science Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0362-3319 • E-ISSN: 1873-5355 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1016/s0362-3319(01)00116-1 |
| OpenAlex | W2147160831 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 10 |
Leprosy or Hansen's Disease represented a major social, moral, and health concern during the Middle Ages. Few diseases have evoked the social responses that leprosy did during the Middle Ages. Medieval explanations, social norms, perceptions, and medical responses to leprosy and people with the disease are surveyed. Some medieval communities took dramatic exclusionary measures to socially isolate individuals with the disease. Other communities, while acknowledging the disease, treated individuals similar to ordinary citizens and with compassion
Compassion · Disease · Leprosy · Pathology · Political science · History of Medicine Studies · Leprosy Research and Treatment · Medicine · Psychology · Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research · Dermatology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |