Sentences with phrase «treatment of lepers»
He observes in Madness and Civilization that medieval society, except for its treatment of lepers (and religious minorities), tended, less than ours, to incarcerate its own members for deviancy But by the 17th and 18th centuries, society imprisoned the idle, the poor, the insane and the criminal without distinction in the former houses of leprosy.
http://www.religion-online.org/ Not exact matches
Once a quiet island, quite literally in the middle of nowhere, it was transformed into a Leper Colony and became a place where advances were made against the treatments and cures of the heartbreaking disease.