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By Betsy Hille
Special to the Rappahannock News
The Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community welcomes county resident Luke Demaitre at the Rappahannock library Friday, March 11 at 8 p.m. to talk about his book, “The Many Faces of Lazarus: Writing a Human History of Leprosy.” He will talk about his work in progress, which is under contract with the Johns Hopkins University Press. The talk is sponsored by the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community as part of the Second Friday at the Library Series. Admission is free.
In his book, Demaitre looks at the history of a disease that may seem exotic and extinct, but that reveals a lot about our own ideas and attitudes, and that raises a lot of questions and implications. What do we know about leprosy, and about the afflicted? What does it have to do with measles? With elephantiasis? What does the word “leper” mean? What is the connection with Lazarus? Does leprosy make us think of the “Dark Ages”? Do we associate leprosy with AIDS? What is the responsibility of government in cases of contagious diseases? How does medicine influence our thinking about certain diseases?
Says Demaitre, “with this book, I am able to share the experiences and excitement of my research on a subject that, far from being just
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