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Termination of the leprosy isolation policy in the US and Japan : Science, policy changes, and the garbage can model
BACKGROUND: In both the US and Japan, the patient isolation policy for leprosy /Hansen's disease (HD) was preserved along with the isolation facilities, long after it had been proven to be scientifically unnecessary. This delayed policy termination caused a deprivation of civil liberties of the...
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BioMed Central
2005
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1079837/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15771781 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-698X-5-3 |