DVD : Leprosy, Stigma, and Human Rights: Summer Discount

[Ellen Bruno]

LEPER

A Life Beyond Stigma

A documentary film by Ellen Bruno

Since antiquity, leprosy has struck fear into human beings. Seen as contagious,
mutilating and incurable,

leprosy continues to alienate those who contract it

from their families and communities.

Leper provides a rare and intimate glimpse into a contemporary society of lepers
in a remote village in Nepal.

Villagers speak openly and emotionally about their relationship to their
sickness, to the "healthy" outside community outside the village boundaries, and
the myriad stigmas and misunderstandings which surround a disease that has
marked their bodies and their lives.

The villagers speak eloquently of how, after much struggle and hardship, they
build new lives for themselves, recreating family and community in the context
of this disease.

Their poignant and revealing stories offer heartfelt reflections on societal
fears and aversions to sickness, bodily differences, and death.

"Made with remarkable sensitivity, beauty and compassion, Leper is a tremendous
resource for teaching about the stigma of disease.

We have much to learn from the people of this small village in Nepal that can be
applied to a wide spectrum of illness.

If the empathy gained in watching this film could be used in treating patients
in our country, health care would be greatly improved."

—Maren Grainger-Monsen, MD, Center for Biomedical Ethics,
Stanford University School of Medicine

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"This disease takes away the beauty of your face.
It eats up your hands and feet and makes us ugly.

Other diseases
eat up your insides,
but they leave you looking beautiful outside."

"People in the villages think it is caused
by Naga spirits.
So they sacrifice chickens and goats
and do prayer pujas.

They did it for me.
My parents didn't know."

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