Peculiar People, Amazing Lives sets out to challenge the widely held and deeply ingrained perception that people affected by leprosy are victims of the most terrible scourge imaginable. The experiences of those living in Bethany-- a self-established leprosy community in South India-- tell rather different, more nuanced stories about what it is like to have leprosy at the onset of the twenty-first century. In this richly ethnographic portrait of Bethany people's ...
