Historial oral y memoria de los enfermos de Hansen en dos lazaretos de Colombia: trayectorias de vida, conflictos y resistencias

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Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2017-10

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Abstract: The paper examines the oral history of Hansen’s disease in two Colombian communities that were leper colonies until 1961. The oral history around the disease allows us to connect individuals’ memories with collective memory. This history remains an oral one, and few academic studies have documented it. We use oral history as a qualitative research method in order to analyze how the patients and those who lived alongside them positioned themselves in terms of the disease and how it permeated their entire existence, re-signifying the concepts of health and disease, normality and abnormality. We examine how, over the course of their lives, they engaged in resistance strategies that allowed them to get closer to normality, in their own sociocultural terms.

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