Armauer Hansen and human leprosy transmission: medical ethics and legal rights.

Armauer Hansen (1841-1912): discoverer of the cause of leprosy.

Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen (1841-1912)--the 100th anniversary of the death of the discoverer of Mycobacterium leprae.

The year 2012 marked the 100th anniversary of the death of Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen (1841-1912), a Norwegian physician known for his identification of Mycobacterium leprae as the causative agent of leprosy. In the second half of the 19th century, the medical community believed leprosy had a noninfectious etiology, and it was not until Hansen uncovered the relationship between M leprae and ...

Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen seen through his own eyes. A review of his memoirs.

In the course of the century which has elapsed since the discovery of the leprosy bacillus in 1873 by C. H. Armauer Hansen (1841-1912 ), several biographers and medical historians have stressed the importance of this event. 2 The life span of C. H . Armauer Hansen covers a period when bacteriology was a growing specialty in medical science. Earlier suggestions that certain diseases might be ass...

Leprosy: In Its Clinical & Pathological Aspects

Armauer Hansen and Dr. Carl Looft. Translated by Norman Walker, M.D. Pp. xi., 162. Bristol: John Wright & Co. 1895. The clinical history of leprosy has been long and well written; but until recently no scientific description of its etiology and pathology could be held worthy of much estimation, because the discovery of the bacillus of leprosy, though made by Hansen as far back as 1871, was not ...

Coronavirus Pandemic; From Human Rights Considerations to Citizenship Requirements

Coronavirus pandemic as a global health challenge, has had many political, economic, legal, social and cultural consequences in the realm of national societies and internationally. The most important concerns in the legal field are the human rights situation in the international system and civil rights in the field of national systems. These concerns are mainly related to the restriction of the...