dc.contributor.author | Perreira, Christopher | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-11-14T21:12:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-11-14T21:12:12Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Perreira, C. (2017). “Suppose for a moment, that Keanu had reasoned thus”: Contagious Debts and Prisoner–Patient Consent in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i. Journal of Transnational American Studies, 8(1). Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3mp7p2dv | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/27355 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article considers the 1884 criminal case and medical archive of Keanu, a Native Hawaiian prisoner sentenced to death in the Hawaiian courts for murder. Keanu’s sentence was commuted to “life in prison” after he consented to experimental leprosy (Hansen’s disease) inoculations. The article examines the tensions between Keanu’s prisoner–patient value and US imperialism as a discourse of social debt in nineteenth-century Hawai‘i. It argues that the figure of the prisoner–patient raises broad questions about the historical function of racialization, criminalization, and disease across medical discourse at that time. More specifically, it interrogates how those discourses were constructed around the figure of Keanu and reveals a transformation in his status from devalued social death to that of valuable social debt. | en_US |
dc.publisher | eScholarship Publishing | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3mp7p2dv | en_US |
dc.rights | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.title | “Suppose for a moment, that Keanu had reasoned thus”: Contagious Debts and Prisoner–Patient Consent in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Perreira, Chirstopher | |
kusw.kudepartment | American Studies | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | en_US |