ISOLATION: PLACES AND PRACTICES OF EXCLUSION; ED. BY CAROLYN STRANGE

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"This book examines legally sanctioned strategies of exclusion and segregation undertaken over the last two centuries across a range of national and colonial contexts. In addition to offering new perspectives on the continuum of medico-penal sites of isolation, from the asylum to the penitentiary, contributors examine less well-known sites, from 'leper villages' to refugee camps to Native reserves."--BOOK JACKET.