ISBN:
9780520951464
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (440 S.)
,
Ill.
Edition:
Updated with a new afterword and photo essay
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Biehl, João, 1961 - Vita
DDC:
452
Keywords:
Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
;
Marginality, Social
;
Institutional care
;
Institutional care -- Brazil -- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
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Marginality, Social -- Brazil -- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
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Institutional care ; Brazil ; Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
;
Marginality, Social ; Brazil ; Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
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Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Erlebnisbericht
;
Bibliografie
;
Brasilien
;
Pôrto Alegre
;
Irrenanstalt
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
part one. Vitapart two. Catarina and the alphabet -- part three. The medical archive -- part four. The family -- part five. Biology and ethics -- part six. The dictionary.
Note:
Literaturverz. S. 413 - 430
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