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.
BT - Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos C1 -http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27849217?dopt=Abstract
DO - 10.1590/S0104-59702016005000028 IS - 1 J2 - Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos LA - por, eng N1 -Portuguese PDF http://www.scielo.br/pdf/hcsm/v24n1/0104-5970-hcsm-S0104-59702016005000028.pdf
English PDF http://www.scielo.br/pdf/hcsm/2016nahead/en_0104-5970-hcsm-S0104-59702016005000028.pdf
N2 -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.
PY - 2017 SP - 13 EP - 39 T2 - Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos TI - Leprosy: disease, isolation, and segregation in colonial Mozambique. TT - Lepra: doença, isolamento e segregação no contexto colonial em Moçambique UR - http://www.scielo.br/pdf/hcsm/v24n1/0104-5970-hcsm-S0104-59702016005000028.pdf VL - 24 SN - 1678-4758 ER -