01391nas a2200217   4500000000100000008004100001260001300042653001100055653001800066653002600084653002600110653002600136653002600162653001200188100001700200245007100217300000800288490000700296520085600303022001401159       1987                            d  c1987 Jun10aBrazil10aHealth policy10aHistory, 17th Century10aHistory, 18th Century10aHistory, 19th Century10aHistory, 20th Century10aleprosy1 aMonteiro Y N00a[Hansen's disease: history and policy in the state of São Paulo].  a1-70 v123 a<p>Hanseniasis is an illness whose specific characteristics made it different from all the other illnesses. The stigma surrounding it contributed, throughout the times, to make the "leper" identified as someone who brought with him danger and death, justifying discriminatory procedures. The hanseniasis history study in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, makes the repetition of this posture evident, being observed since the colonial times until the present century the continuity in the adoption of segregation procedures, variable at times, but not in it's intensity. The growth of the hanseniasis prevalence rate in São Paulo, even after the sulphones advent, compells us to reconsider the phenomenon, whose explication extrapolates the atrictly biologic scope, pointing out to the need of a better historic and social analysis of the disease.</p>  a0100-3283