TY - JOUR
KW - Motherhood
KW - leprosy
KW - Sense
AU - Almeida 
AU - Savassi 
AU - Schall 
AU - Modena 
AB - Being a mother with leprosy: the experiences of separation due to compulsory isolation. In the twentieth century, women with leprosy could not carry on their maternity because of the statement of compulsory isolation of patients, adopted to control the disease. Their children were taken at birth to prevention centers and the contact of mothers with their babies was only visual. In order to understand the experience of maternity in the leprosaria it was carried out an investigated narrative research with three mothers who lived through the period of compulsory internment. The speeches reveal two distinct moments in the experience of motherhood: the separation of the children with their subsequent return to home and the adoption of
other children to achieve motherhood. It is considered that the adoption has promoted the meeting with the meaning of existence that had been broken and allowed the experience of being a parent. 
BT - Estudos de Psicologia (Natal)
CN - ALMEIDA2012
DA - 2012 May/Aug
DO - 10.1590/S1413-294X2012000200011 
IS - 2
J2 - Estud. psicol. (Natal) 
LA - por
N2 - Being a mother with leprosy: the experiences of separation due to compulsory isolation. In the twentieth century, women with leprosy could not carry on their maternity because of the statement of compulsory isolation of patients, adopted to control the disease. Their children were taken at birth to prevention centers and the contact of mothers with their babies was only visual. In order to understand the experience of maternity in the leprosaria it was carried out an investigated narrative research with three mothers who lived through the period of compulsory internment. The speeches reveal two distinct moments in the experience of motherhood: the separation of the children with their subsequent return to home and the adoption of
other children to achieve motherhood. It is considered that the adoption has promoted the meeting with the meaning of existence that had been broken and allowed the experience of being a parent. 
PB - Scielo
PY - 2012
SP - 275 
EP -  282
T2 - Estudos de Psicologia (Natal)
TI - Being a mother with leprosy: the experiences of separation due to compulsory isolation
UR - http://www.scielo.br/pdf/epsic/v17n2/11.pdf
VL - 17
SN - 1413-294X
ER -