Vita : Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment.

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Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities-places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Biehl, João
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.
Temas:
Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Institutional care > Brazil > Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
Marginality, Social > Brazil > Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
Soins en institutions > Brésil > Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Institutional care
Marginality, Social
Brazil > Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
anthropology and social theory.
anthropology students.
brazilian culture.
brazilian economy.
brazilian ethnography.
brazilian health care.
cultural anthropology.
ethics and morality.
healthcare and poverty.
international health care.
international mental health.
international studies.
latin american culture.
latin american healthcare.
medical anthropology.
mental illness.
social services and welfare.
south american anthropology.
south american culture.
south american ethnography.
south american mental health.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities-places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist João Biehl leads a detective-like journey to know Catarina; to unravel the cryptic, poetic words that are part of the ""dictionary"" she is compiling; and to trace the complex network of family, medicine, state, and economy in which her abandonment and pathology.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (457 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-430) and index.
ISBN:9780520951464
0520951468
1299952887
9781299952881

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