01539nas a2200241   4500000000100000008004100001260000900042653002700051653001100078653001900089653002600108653001100134653001200145653001300157653000900170100001200179700001400191245010500205300001100310490000700321520095500328022001401283       2003                            d  c200310aAutobiography as Topic10aFemale10aHistoriography10aHistory, 20th Century10aHumans10aleprosy10aPatients10aPeru1 aCueto M1 aPuente JC00aVida de leprosa: the testimony of a woman living with Hansen's disease in the Peruvian Amazon, 1947.  a337-600 v103 a<p>This is the narrative of a patient made before, during and after being incarcerated in an agricultural colony in the Peruvian Amazon. In a vivid style, it narrates the decay of the body, the stigma and the compulsive segregation, as well as the hope for a better life. It is the perspective of a patient, something that is difficult to find when researching the history of health. The original publication was possible thanks to the German physician Maxime H. Kuczynski-Godard and thanks to the Institute of Social Medicine of the University of San Marcos that was directed by the professor of hygiene Carlos Enrique Paz-Soldán. We have used this publication for this transcription. Kuczynski-Godard was a German medical doctor that arrived in Peru in the mid 1930s and organized valuable activities in the Peruvian jungle as a part of an effort, which eventually failed, of the Peruvian State to colonize, or really to "civilize" the Amazon.</p>  a0104-5970