2022-07-202022-07-202010-06CHAVEIRO, Eguimar Felício. A letra e a lepra: o conto cidadão. Saber Acadêmico, Presidente Prudente, n. 9, p. 78-90, jun. 2010.1980-5950http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/handle/ri/20995Through the testimony of the life narrated by the subject leprosy patients, stemmed the geographic search based on the qualitative methodologies. The narrate was use to composed the stories, wherein the plot is shot through of drama of the asylum life and the way how this kind of a sickness- the leprosy – enter in a process of the social representation, generate psychic contamination of the different order. Aggregation of the geography with the literature, on this paper, has the clear objective: publicizing the scream of the life that subject stricken by the sickness and change him on a policy tools.porAcesso Abertohttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/RepresentationRepresentaçãoAsylum lifePolicy significationVida asilarSignificações políticasArtigo