Memórias e história da hanseníase no Amazonas de 1930 a 1978

Abstract

This dissertation has as goal to investigate the Leprosy History in the state of Amazonas, between 1930 to 1978, by privileging the memories from people Who experienced the treatment, that was characterized by the isolation on “colonies”, and the institutions built to sustain this disease that caused so much commotion and fear. Methodologically, we adopted two points of perspective: the first one, to collect the personal narratives and, the second one is a research into bibliographic sources and historical documents to approach the history of the institutions and the public health politics and its impacts and social threats. Accordingly, we emphasize that this dissertation privileges the socialanthropological nature of Leprosy, without ignore the biological issues, we remind that there is no disease without subject, and still, in each society and time, the way of comprehension of a disease will always be in the correlation between people and their interpretations and knowledge.