جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « Leprosy » در نشریات گروه « علوم انسانی »

Leprosy was one of the oldest diseases and one of the issues that humans were involved in all societies including Iran. The present research, by raising the question, what effect did social security have on the health system and the status of lepers in the middle period of Iran? It examines the relationship between the social health system and social security with a case study of lepers. The result of the research, which was carried out with an interdisciplinary approach and a descriptive-analytical approach, confirms that the society and government of Iran in the middle period, like many societies of the pre-modern era, had social rejection of lepers on their agenda. "Hot disgrace" of the mentioned disease had imposed a distinct, independent, but inferior and deprived of existing facilities on the lepers. This shame used a negative approach in dealing with lepers by implicating the sufferers and accusing them of guilt in contracting the disease. This approach turned leprosy from a medical-biological issue into a cultural-social issue and inevitably forced the lepers to accept conditions that they themselves had no part in creating. Social security in the society's agenda covered only the non-leper majority and excluded lepers as those who threatened the existing health and security system from its safe inclusion; In a way that the lepers also accepted these conditions and suffered the suffering and consequences arising from it.

According to the famous Imams' jurisprudents based on the evidence, such as narratives, leprosy and vitiligo that are among the defects of the couples. If these defects are appeared, the man is the rightful to terminate the marriage, but on the contrary, a group of jurisprudents, including Feiz Kashani, has considered it to be a common defect of couples, which, in the assumption of the appearance of that for any wife or husband, the other party will have the right to terminate the marriage. The present research, while referring to the jurisprudents and jurisprudence sources, has analyzed the documents of this rule and, with the preference of the non-famous viewpoint, has concluded that while realization of woman’s leprosy and vitiligo can give the man, right to terminate marriage, if the defect is confirmed for the man, the woman will have the right to terminate marriage. The main argument at this present article - regardless of the existence of narratives - is that if the woman does not have the right to terminate marriage, there aren’t any alternatives for her; unlike a man that if he did not have such a right, he could utilize divorce’s option.

The word ‘baras’ has been used in religious texts in different forms and meanings. In its modern usage it refers to chronic disorder that causes depigmentation in patches of skin. It occurs when the melanocytes, the cells responsible for skin pigmentation which are derived from the neural crest, die or are unable to function. This perception does not agree with the way of utilizing this word in the Quran and hadith. In addition what is meant by baras in jurisprudential decisions is very different from above-mentioned meaning. Searching different sources, the author of this paper concludes that the word baras has been dressed in new meaning and is very different from ‘judham’ (leprosy).