Vida de leprosa: the testimony of a woman living with Hansen's disease in the Peruvian Amazon, 1947.
This is the narrative of a patient made before, during and after being incarcerated in an agricultural colony in the Peruvian Amazon. In a vivid style, it narrates the decay of the body, the stigma and the compulsive segregation, as well as the hope for a better life. It is the perspective of a patient, something that is difficult to find when researching the history of health. The original publication was possible thanks to the German physician Maxime H. Kuczynski-Godard and thanks to the Institute of Social Medicine of the University of San Marcos that was directed by the professor of hygiene Carlos Enrique Paz-Soldán. We have used this publication for this transcription. Kuczynski-Godard was a German medical doctor that arrived in Peru in the mid 1930s and organized valuable activities in the Peruvian jungle as a part of an effort, which eventually failed, of the Peruvian State to colonize, or really to "civilize" the Amazon.
Cueto
Marcos
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Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru. mcueto@upch.edu.pe
de la Puente
José Carlos
JC
D001325:Autobiographies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006663:Historiography; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007918:Leprosy / Q000266:history*; D010361:Patients / Q000266:history*; D010568:Peru