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Rasokat, Anna (2017). Literature's place in the global public health arena: Graham Greene's fictional translation of leprosy in A Burnt-Out Case. Interdiscip. Sci. Rev., 42 (3). S. 241 - 255. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 1743-2790

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Abstract

This paper traces the engagement of Graham Greene's novel A Burnt-Out Case with traditional discourses of leprosy (the biblical 'leper' as a sinner, missionary care, tropical medicine, Albert Schweitzer's hospital in Lambarene, germ theory), and shows how it suggests an ethics of care which highlights the psychosocial aspects of disease and healing. The paper argues that the reception of the novel opened a discursive space for the renegotiation of images of leprosy after empire, making visible the structures and agents of global public health communication and their diverging conceptions of explanatory authority, scientific accuracy and the relation of science and literature. The article incorporates archival sources from press reviews to draft versions of the novel and the author's correspondence with prominent leprosy experts. It draws on media and science communication studies, disability studies and on contributions to the sociology of knowledge by Ludwik Fleck, Thomas Kuhn and Bruno Latour.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Rasokat, Anna UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-244604
DOI:	10.1080/03080188.2017.1345144
Journal or Publication Title:	Interdiscip. Sci. Rev.
Volume:	42
Number:	3
Page Range:	S. 241 - 255
Date:	2017
Publisher:	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Place of Publication:	ABINGDON
ISSN:	1743-2790
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Multidisciplinary Sciences; Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/24460