Poster: “A lepra não é hereditária” (“Leprosy is not hereditary”), from the National Health Education Service campaign (A lepra…, s.d.). In Porto, C. L., & Marques, M. C. da C.. (2023). Socio-historical representations of a disease: a study of posters from campaigns against Hansen’s disease during the second half of the twentieth century. História, Ciências, Saúde-manguinhos, 30, e2023066.
World Leprosy Day is observed every year on the last Sunday of January to create awareness against the stigma attached to the disease by making the general community aware that it is a disease spread by a type of bacteria and it can be easily cured.
To shed some light on the topic, we highlight the article Socio-historical representations of disease: a study of posters from campaigns against Hansen’s disease during the second half of the twentieth century, published in the 2023 volume of HCS-Manguinhos by Carla Lisboa Porto and Maria Cristina da C. Marques, from the Faculty of Public Health at the University of São Paulo (USP).
In the context of educational campaigns to combat Hansen’s disease, the article analyses posters from the 1950s, 1960s, 1980s, and 1990s, seeking to identify the textual, visual, or graphic elements used to develop a discourse on this disease and those it affected and transformations and permanences in this discourse, as well as to verify how they became part of a narrative of institutional memory linked to public health in the state of São Paulo. The sources studied are part of the Health Campaign Posters collection, whose items were produced by several institutions linked to public health and are part of the Emílio Ribas Public Health Museum collection.
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