01194nas a2200145   4500000000100000008004100001260001300042100001300055245015400068856005000222300001100272490000700283520074400290022001401034       2010                            d  c2010 Dec1 aCunha VS00a[Isolated 'like us' or isolated 'among us'?: the controversy within the National Academy of Medicine over compulsory isolation of leprosy sufferers].  uhttp://www.scielo.br/pdf/hcsm/v17n4/en_06.pdf  a939-540 v173 a<p>Given Brazilian society's view of leprosy in the early twentieth century, patient segregation was considered the only way to protect the healthy. The policy enforced by the Inspectorship for the Prevention of Leprosy and Venereal Diseases deemed isolation in leprosaria the preferred approach. Belisário Penna criticized the work of the Inspectorship, arguing that the best way to isolate patients would be to create municipalities located a good distance from urban centers. In 1926, Penna came head to head over the subject with Eduardo Rabello, the Inspectorship's former chief. Part of a broader debate on the best way to control leprosy, this controversy sheds light on the changes to leprosy policies introduced in the 1930s.</p>  a1678-4758