01442nas a2200121   4500000000100000008004100001260001000042100001200052245004400064300001000108520118400118020001801302       2023                            d  bBRILL1 aJenga F00aColonial Medicine and Leprosy in Uganda  a27-433 a<p>This Uganda-focused chapter explores the use of islands and desolate places in colonial Uganda as places for isolation and exclusion. Individuals who were considered political, health, moral, cultural, and spiritual “threats” to society in historical Uganda were isolated and forcefully sent to designated places as a “public safety” measure. Focused on the leper “camps” of&nbsp;<em>Bwama</em>&nbsp;island in Lake Bunyonyi in the Kigezi region; and on the isolated area of&nbsp;<em>Buluba</em>&nbsp;in the Busoga region of modern-day Uganda, the chapter highlights how the historical segregation of Ugandan leprosy patients connects with larger contemporary discourses about exclusion of people considered a “danger” to society. The study used an archival-oral historic approach; and applied in the analysis Carl Schmitt and Giorgio Agamben’s concepts of&nbsp;<em>sovereign authority, the state of exception</em>, and&nbsp;<em>bio-politics</em>. The chapter warns about the potential danger of abuse in granting the state or the “sovereign” uncontrolled powers to define and exclude some sections of society as “threats” to the larger society.</p>
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