Leprosy and Stigma

• Autor(a) principal: Barreto, Jubel
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Gasparoni, Jéssica Miquelitto, Politani, André Landucci, Rezende, Lorena Moreira de, Edilon, Tainah Sena, Fernandes, Victor Gustavo, Lima, Vinícius Magaton
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Hansenologia Internationalis (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.saude.sp.gov.br/hansenologia/article/view/35072
• topic: Hanseníase; Estigma Social; Antropologia Médica; Leprosy; Social Stigma; Anthropology, Medical

Social representations are understood as dynamic structures that regulate the choices and actions of individuals and groups in different situations of life, especially in episodes related to sickness. In few diseases is the association between the illness and the stigmata, and between the physical deformity and the moral conviction, as clear as in leprosy. In order to compare the social representations of a generation of patients subjected to compulsory confinement under a diagnosis of leprosy with those of a generation of outpatients diagnosed with Hansen’s disease, thiswork asks to what extend some aspects of the historically stigmatizing representation of leprosy persist to the day, despite the changes in the denomination and in the understanding of the nature and the treatment of the disease.