The anti-leprosy campaign in Colombia: the rhetoric of hygiene and science, 1920-1940
Since the 1920s, the medical community realized that the strategy of leprosy control based on segregation and persecution of patients was inefficient and expensive. In the 1930s the new liberal government incorporated leprosy within the general sanitary institutions, by merging the Bureau of Lazaret...
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| Language: | English |
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz
2003-01-01
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| Series: | História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-59702003000400009&tlng=en |