01436nas a2200301   4500000000100000008004100001260001700042653001400059653002300073653001700096653001300113653002600126653001800152653001200170653002200182653001900204653003100223653001800254653002200272653001700294100001400311700001400325245012300339300001000462490000700472520064100479022001401120       2008                            d  c2008 Jul-Dec10aArgentina10aAttitude to Health10aCivil Rights10aEugenics10aHistory, 20th Century10aJurisprudence10aleprosy10aPatient Isolation10aPatient Rights10aPreventive Health Services10aPublic health10aSocial Conditions10aStereotyping1 aMiranda M1 aVallejo G00a[Ways of physical and symbolic isolation: leprosy, its isolation spaces and the medical-legal discourse in Argentina].  a19-420 v603 a<p>During the first half of the twentieth century, the presence of leprosy in modern societies provoked various reactions. As ancient prejudices had not disappeared yet, the medical-legal discourse dealt with a problem that exceeded the strictly sanitary framework. From a scientific perspective, this paper analyzes the way in which answers find that seemed the population and the future of the race in the physical and symbolic isolation of the leper, were developed in Argentina. In that context, the eugenics legitimated strong restrictions of rights to sick persons on whom this ancestral stigma continued to carry much weight.</p>  a0210-4466