WHEN Professor Li Huanying visitedNanxing Village—one of the "lepers’villages" in Xishuangbanna DaiAutonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province, sherefused to put on protective clothing, unlike manyprevious vi...WHEN Professor Li Huanying visitedNanxing Village—one of the "lepers’villages" in Xishuangbanna DaiAutonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province, sherefused to put on protective clothing, unlike manyprevious visiting doctors there. No rubber boots andgloves, no gauze mask or special clothing that isburned when out of the village. She examined thepatients’ wounds, then shook their hands. That was in 1979, when leprosy was stillconsidered an incurable disease and people tried tokeep away from those afflicted as much as possible.展开更多
文摘WHEN Professor Li Huanying visitedNanxing Village—one of the "lepers’villages" in Xishuangbanna DaiAutonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province, sherefused to put on protective clothing, unlike manyprevious visiting doctors there. No rubber boots andgloves, no gauze mask or special clothing that isburned when out of the village. She examined thepatients’ wounds, then shook their hands. That was in 1979, when leprosy was stillconsidered an incurable disease and people tried tokeep away from those afflicted as much as possible.
