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| Id: | 20624
| | Autor: | Wilson, R. M. | | Título: | Marriage among lepers.
| | Fonte: | Int. J. Lepr;4(4):441-443, Oct.-Dec. 1936. .
| | Resumo: | One group of eleven carefully selected, strong and able-bodied couples in whom the disease was arrested were allowed to marry after vasectomy of the male, and to adopt a child and support themselves upon land within our colony. There have been no relapses of the disease after three years, and the experiment has proved a happy one. A second group with whose selection and marriage we had nothing to do came under our care. Among seventeen couples nine have had babies, and in four of the women concerned the disease has relapsed due to the strain of pregnancy and lactation. Lepers will marry, as do other people. RElapses follow and children are born who create new problems. For a limited number of selected suitable cases it seems to be highly desirable to permit marriage after sterilization and to aid these families in becoming self-supporting. (AU).
| | Descritores: | HANSENIASE/compl
HANSENIASE/epidemiol
HANSENIASE/prev
HANSENIASE/transm
ISOLAMENTO DE PACIENTES/hist
ISOLAMENTO DE PACIENTES/psicol
| | Limites: | HUMANO
| | Localização: | BR191.1 |
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