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.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; VITA; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: "Dead alive, dead outside, alive inside"; PART ONE. VITA; A Zone of Social Abandonment; Brazil; Citizenship; PART TWO. CATARINA AND THE ALPHABET; Life of the Mind; Society of Bodies; Inequality; Ex-Human; The House and the Animal; "Love is the illusion of the abandoned"; Social Psychosis; An Illness of Time; God, Sex, and Agency; PART THREE. THE MEDICAL ARCHIVE; Public Psychiatry; Her Life as a Typical Patient; Democratization and the Right to Health; Economic Change and Mental Suffering; Medical Science; End of a Life; Voices.
  • Care and ExclusionMigration and Model Policies; Women, Poverty, and Social Death; "I am like this because of life"; The Sense of Symptoms; Pharmaceutical Being; PART FOUR. THE FAMILY; Ties; Ataxia; Her House; Brothers; Children, In-Laws, and the Ex-Husband; Adoptive Parents; "To want my body as a medication, my body"; Everyday Violence; PART FIVE. BIOLOGY AND ETHICS; Pain; Human Rights; Value Systems; Gene Expression and Social Abandonment; Family Tree; A Genetic Population; A Lost Chance; PART SIX. THE DICTIONARY; "Underneath was this, which I do not attempt to name"; Book I; Book II.
  • Book IIIBook IV; Book V; Book VI; Book VII; Book VIII; Book IX; Book X; Book XI; BookXII; Book XIII; Book XIV; Book XV; Book XVI; Book XVII; Book XVIII; Book XIX; Conclusion: A way to the words
  • Postscript: I am part of the origins, not just of language, but of people
  • AFTERWORD; Return to Vita; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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