[Leprosy: stigma and prejudice lived by institucionalized patients in Santa Catarina State, Brazil (1940-1960)].
This study is a qualitative research with a socio-historic approach whose objective was to know the prejudice and stigma lived by the institutionalized patients/residents with hanseniase. To achieve this goal, three patients were intervewed who lived in a colony hospital during the research period, utilizing the oral history method. Data were collected and were further analysed, utilizing the stigma referencial. The results indicated that after the entry in the institution, these patients got their family bonds broken, lost their rights as citizens, regarding the situation, they took upon a new life, in a new environment. Concluding that, the nosocomial isolation for a long period of time (years of confinement and dismissal), caused the symbolic death of many patients that lived with the hope to cohabit with family and/or society.
Borenstein
Miriam Süssking
MS
Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Grupo de Estudos de História do Conhecimento da Enfermagem, SC.
Padilha
Maria Itayra
MI
Costa
Eliani
E
Gregório
Vitória Regina Petters
VR
Koerich
Ana Maria Espíndola
AM
Ribas
Dorotéa Löes
DL
D001938:Brazil; D005190:Family; D055819:Hospitals, Isolation; D006801:Humans; D007918:Leprosy / Q000523:psychology*; D011287:Prejudice; D036301:Qualitative Research; D013240:Stereotyping; D014186:Transportation; D017132:Workplace