title: [Researching documents on the history of hansen's disease in Brazil].
abstract: This article corresponds to part of the results of a research on leprosy-related sources developed in several institutions in the city of Rio de Janeiro. At Real Gabinete Português de Leitura, Arquivo Nacional and Biblioteca Nacional, banks, indexes, official documents and photos on the administration of leprosaria and articles on the treatment of the disease have been investigated. At Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brazil (CPDOC-FGV), several files have been researched, mainly those with information on the health policies of the first Vargas administration (1930-1945). This research is part of the International Leprosy Association Global Project on the History of Leprosy. Its results can be accessed at the site http://www.leprosyhistory.org
authors.affiliation: International Leprosy Association, vinculado a Unit for the History of Medicine da Oxford University, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. vsaul@uol.com.br
authors.forename: Vicente Saul Moreira dos
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Santos
mesh_terms: D001109:Archives / Q000266:history*; D001938:Brazil; D004282:Documentation / Q000266:history*; D006663:Historiography; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D007918:Leprosy / Q000266:history*; D007990:Libraries / Q000266:history*; D011634:Public Health / Q000266:history*