01477nas a2200241   4500000000100000008004100001260001300042653001200055653001700067653001000084653002500094653001100119100002400130700001600154700001600170245007100186856004800257300001200305490000700317050001800324520087900342022001401221       2013                            d  c2013 Dec10aleprosy10aNursing Care10aWomen10aQualitative Research10aBrazil1 aProença Palmeira I1 aQueiroz ABA1 aFerreira MA00a[Marks on oneself: experiencing the pain of (self) preconception].  uhttp://www.scielo.br/pdf/reben/v66n6/13.pdf  a893-9000 v66  aPALMEIRA 20133 aQualitative research whose objective was to understand the social representations of the body by women with alterations caused by leprosy, for nursing care can meet more broadly to your needs. The theoretical framework was the social representations. Forty-three women participated, all of them from a reference unit specialized in sanitary dermatology. Interviews were conducted, which contents were processed by the software ALCESTE, generating a class whose words were associated with preconception anchored in the negative perception of leprosy. The explanatory framework of social representations showed a strong brand of the social memory of leprosy, whose symbolic construction sustains itself on fear of the disease. It was concluded on the need to invest in the deconstruction of archaic beliefs about leprosy so that to have new ways of acting towards the disease.  a0034-7167