01075nas a2200145   4500000000100000008004100001260001200042100001300054700001400067245010600081300001000187490000700197520071100204022001400915       2020                            d  c01/20201 aSantos F1 aLeandro J00aWomen from the Federation of Societies for the Care of L..... and Defense Against Leprosy, 1926-1947.  a57-780 v263 a<p>This paper studies the family profiles of women holding key decision-making positions in the Federação das Sociedades de Assistência aos Lázaros e Defesa Contra a Lepra in different parts of Brazil. Using prosopography as a research method and technique, information was collated on women who were closely involved in Brazil's health policy concerning leprosy from the mid-1920s to the late 1940s. The research confirms the involvement of the women in the control and management of the country's preventoria and suggests that the social and professional standing of the fathers and/or husbands of the women who ran the federation was an element that influenced their actions towards the disease.</p>  a1678-4758