1941 - 2001 (Volumes 1 to 60)

Full text of a bimonthly newsletter published by the patients of the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, Carville, Louisiana, 1941-2001. The Carville Hospital was the nation's only leper colony in the continental United States.

The STAR's mission: "Radiating the Light of Truth on Hansen's Disease." Stanley Stein, editor, was an early advocate of changing the name of leprosy to Hansen's disease.

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