Abstract
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.
Highlights
Ciências, Saúde Manguinhos, vol 10: 337-60, 2003. This is the narrative of a patient made before, during and after being incarcerated in an agricultural colony in the Peruvian Amazon
The text below 1 the vicissitudes of a patient before, during and after its incarceration in a leprosorium of the Peruvian jungle is a contribution to the genre of patients narratives that is better known in other regions of the world
Between 1940 and 1942, he was appointed chief of the Supervisión Sanitaria del Nor-Oriente Peruano', an organization that functioned as part of the Ministry of Health
Summary
Ciências, Saúde Manguinhos, vol 10 (supplement 1): 337-60, 2003 This is the narrative of a patient made before, during and after being incarcerated in an agricultural colony in the Peruvian Amazon. 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. Este es un testimonio de una paciente antes, durante y después de su internamiento en una colonia agrícola de la Amazonía peruana. La publicación original fue posible gracias al médico alemán Maxime H. Kuczynski-Godard fue un doctor alemán que llegó al Perú a mediados de los años 1930 y que realizó valiosos trabajos en la selva peruana como parte de un esfuerzo fallido del estado peruano por colonizar o mejor dicho civilizar la Amazonía.
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