Maʻi lepera : disease and displacement in nineteenth-century Hawaiʻi / Kerri A. Inglis.

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2013]

xvii, 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and index.

A land and a disease set apart -- The criminalization of leprosy in Hawaiʻi -- Accommodation, adaptation, and resistance to leprosy and the law -- Living with disease and death at Makanalua -- The journey into exile -- Maʻi hoʻokaʻawale : the disease that separates.