Get The Separating Sickness - Ma'i Ho'oka'awale: Interviews with PDF

Oral historical past -- interviews with exiled Leprosy sufferers at Kalaupapa, Molokai, Hawaii. sufferers inform approximately having bounties put on them, being captured, quarantined and imprisoned for all times as leprosy sufferers. released by means of Anoai Press. sixteen pages of colour pictures.

Thousands of individuals with leprosy have been despatched to die at Kalaupapa, Molokai. Kalaupapa operated as a leprosarium (actually a jail) for 103 years, from 1886 to 1969. it's the position the place the Catholic Priest Father Damien got here to serve the sufferers. He resided at Kalaupapa from 1873 to 1889. In 1889 he additionally succumbed to the sickness. Very outdated sufferers nonetheless live at Kalaupapa. at the present time, Kalaupapa has been preserved as a U.S. nationwide Park, as a result of its usual good looks, and to record the tragic occasions that happened there.

The e-book "The setting apart ailment" is an oral historical past. It was once researched and released for the 1st time within the mid-1970s. within the pages of the booklet, outdated sufferers record their lives for destiny generations to examine. such a lot of these interviewed, have kicked the bucket. however, they proportion their haunting reviews with us and ask us why society taken care of them in the sort of brutal and inhumane means? -- Their lives remind us that Hawaii's heritage isn't all shiny and sunny.

"You recognize, the infants that have been born inside of the following weren't allowed to stick with their mom and dad. After the infants have been born, the legislations stated they'd to be taken away to the newborn nursery in Kalaupapa. They have been scared of the touch - afraid the infants might seize the ailment from their mom and dad ... they allowed the youngsters to reside 12 months within Kalaupapa nursery. There lets see them merely via thick glass, yet no can contact! Then, after twelve months, they have been got rid of. They have been both "hanai "by relatives or 'issued' out for adoption by means of the Board of wellbeing and fitness ..."
There's an entire life of discomfort in those easy phrases, spoken by means of a "Male: Hawaiian, Widowed, Age: eighty one, sixty seven years at Kalaupapa" in a chain of oral histories accrued in Kalaupapa within the 1970s.

These interviews have been accumulated by means of sociologists Ted Gugelyk and Milton Bloombaum and released as "The setting apart disorder: Ma'i Ho'oka'awale" in 1979. The booklet used to be lately republished via Anoai Press and is once more to be had at Hawaii bookstores. and as an EBook.

"That booklet provide nice insights into what it was once like at Kalaupapa from the interior; the 1st e-book, particularly, to speak about Hansen's ailment from the patient's element of view," acknowledged Stephanie Castillo, writer of "Simple Courage," an Emmy-award-winning documentary at the topic. "There are a few really awesome tales in there..."
-- Burl Burlingame, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1/6/97

Author Bio: Ted Gugelyk is retired from the collage of Hawaii and The East West heart, in Honolulu Hawaii. He has released either educational paintings and fiction, and after 55 years of residing in Hawaii now is living in North East rural Thailand. He writes, travels and publishes books, Anoai Press is his small press, and produces tales approximately browsing, Hawaii and Asia and the Pacific.

Milton Bloombaum is a retired Senior Professor of Sociology, on the collage of Hawaii. He now is living in Ashland, Oregon.

keywords: Leprosy, Hawaii, Kalaupapa-Molokai, Father Damien, Stigma, Oral background, Hawaiians.