Erla Dóris Halldórsdóttir, Óhreinu börnin hennar Evu: Holdsveiki í Noregi og á Íslandi [Eve’s Unclean Children: Leprosy in Iceland and Norway] (Reykjavík: Ugla, 2020). 416 pp.

• DOI: 10.7557/4.5896
• Publication Date: 2021-11-30T21:02:47Z
• Authors: Helga Hlín Bjarna...
• Keywords: comparative history; Modern history, 1453-; D204-475; Medical history; leprosy

In this book, Erla Dóris Halldórsdóttir presents research on cases of leprosy in Iceland and Norway with the focus (for most parts) eighteenth nineteenth century.The author has previously published another book about subject 2002.Initially, explains what is from a medical point view, that how bacteria, Mycobacterium leprae, infects human body.However, part analyses patients have been treated taken care over centuries Iceland.This also entails ideas changed time.The trained nurse, which allows her to delve deeper into than researchers no background would have.The author's training understanding material view vital for book.The title -Eve's Unclean Children -refers fairy tale by brothers Grimm Eve's unequal children, but twist adjective refers 'unclean' rather 'unequal'.This more specifically exclusion society because they were considered unclean.Apart others feared become sick, it was shameful suffer leprosy.Consequently, found themselves lower segment could be burden community.In Ice-