01285nas a2200193   4500000000100000008004100001653001500042653001300057653001200070653002300082653001700105100001600122245007300138856008300211300001000294490000700304520076600311022001401077       2017                            d10aMozambique10aMedicine10aleprosy10aHistory of leprosy10aColonialisme1 aZamparoni V00aLeprosy: disease, isolation, and segregation in colonial Mozambique.  uhttp://www.scielo.br/pdf/hcsm/v24n1/0104-5970-hcsm-S0104-59702016005000028.pdf  a13-390 v243 a<p>Drawing on documents produced between the early nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, mainly medical reports, this paper indicates the prevailing conceptions in the colonial medical community and local populations about leprosy, its manifestations, and how to deal with it. It focuses on the tensions concerning the practice of segregating lepers and its social and sanitation implications. To comprehend the roots of the discourses and strategies in the Portuguese and colonial medical environment, the trajectory of the definitions of isolation, segregation, and leprosy are traced, as are their use in or absence from the writings of missionaries, chroniclers, and doctors in Angola and Mozambique as of the second half of the seventeenth century.</p>
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