title: Leprosy: disease, isolation, and segregation in colonial Mozambique.
abstract: Drawing on documents produced between the early nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, mainly medical reports, this paper indicates the prevailing conceptions in the colonial medical community and local populations about leprosy, its manifestations, and how to deal with it. It focuses on the tensions concerning the practice of segregating lepers and its social and sanitation implications. To comprehend the roots of the discourses and strategies in the Portuguese and colonial medical environment, the trajectory of the definitions of isolation, segregation, and leprosy are traced, as are their use in or absence from the writings of missionaries, chroniclers, and doctors in Angola and Mozambique as of the second half of the seventeenth century.
authors.affiliation: Professor, Departamento de História, Programa Multidisciplinar de Pós-graduação em Estudos Étnicos e Africanos/Universidade Federal da Bahia. Praça Inocêncio Galvão, 42. 40060-055 - Salvador - BA - Brasil. posafro@ufba.br.
authors.forename: Valdemir
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Zamparoni
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D018595:Colonialism / Q000266:history; D019353:Endemic Diseases / Q000266:history; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007914:Leper Colonies / Q000266:history*; D007918:Leprosy / Q000266:history* / Q000628:therapy; D066189:Missionaries / Q000266:history; D009073:Mozambique; D010356:Patient Isolation / Q000266:history*; D010820:Physicians / Q000266:history; D011174:Portugal