Publication Consensus in Brazil on the renaming of leprosy to Hansen's disease. Delboni L, Deps P. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 2021;
Publication Why we should stop using the word leprosy. Deps P, Cruz A, Barve A. The Lancet. Infectious diseases. 2020; 20 (11) : 1236. Download PDF
Publication Why we should stop using the word leprosy. Butlin CR, Lockwood D. The Lancet. Infectious diseases. 2020; 20 (8) : 900-901. Download PDF
Publication To be able, or disable, that is the question: A critical discussion on how language affects the stigma and self-determination in people with parability. Mousavi BS, Lecic-Tosevski D, Khalili H, et al. The International journal of social psychiatry. 2020;
Publication It's time to rename some diseases: Wing syndrome rather than Asperger's, and no more leprosy but Hansen disease Charlier P, Cymès M, Deo S. Elsevier BV. Ethics, Medicine and Public Health. 2020;
Publication Why we should stop using the word leprosy. Deps PD, Cruz A. The Lancet. Infectious diseases. 2020;
Publication The production of social discourse on Hansen' disease and health education materials in Brazil: a skin patch as something harmless or a serious disease? Santos AK, Ribeiro APG, Monteiro S. LEPRA Health in Action. Leprosy review. 2012; 83 (1) : 24-33. Download PDF
Publication Translating Leprosy: The Expert and the Public in Stanley Stein's Anti-stigmatization Campaigns, 1931–60 John H. Oxford University Press. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 2012;
Publication Language in tuberculosis services: can we change to patient-centred terminology and stop the paradigm of blaming the patients? Zachariah R, Harries A D, Srinath S, et al. The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 2012; 16 (6) : 714-7.
Publication Tuberculosis care: why the words we use matter. Ditiu L, Kumar B. The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 2012; 16 (6) : 711.
Publication The use of the name Mycobacterium w for the leprosy immunotherapeutic bacillus creates confusion with M. tuberculosis-W (Beijing strain): a suggestion. Talwar GP, Ahmed N, Saini V. Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases. 2008; 8 (1) : 100-1.
Publication Social representation of Hansen's disease thirty years after the term "leprosy" was replaced in Brazil. Oliveira MLWD, Mendes CM, Tardin RT, et al. Historia, ciencias, saude--Manguinhos. 2003; 10 (Suppl 1) : 41-8. Download PDF
Publication [Leprosy in the Bible--incorrect translation!]. Gejrot T. Lakartidningen. 1999; 96 (12) : 1463.
Publication The second "sacred disease": earlier euphemistic equivalent of "Hansen's disease". Lascaratos J. International journal of dermatology. 1996; 35 (5) : 376-8.
Publication What's in a name? Caplan R. Iowa medicine : journal of the Iowa Medical Society. 1995; 85 (7) : 295.
Publication Issues of definitions and their implications: AIDS and leprosy. Volinn I J. Social science & medicine (1982). 1989; 29 (10) : 1157-62.
Publication Name changes reflect trends. ROTBERG A. International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association. 1982; 50 (1) : 117-8. Download PDF