ISBN:
0520938232
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9780520938236
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (416 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Biehl, João Vita : Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
DDC:
302.540981
Keywords:
Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
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Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
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Institutional care / Brazil / Porto Alegre
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Marginality, Social / Brazil / Porto Alegre
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Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Brazil)
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Social Science
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PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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Institutional care
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Marginality, Social
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Institutional care
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Marginality, Social
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Irrenanstalt
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Brasilien
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Pôrto Alegre
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Erlebnisbericht
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Erlebnisbericht
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Pôrto Alegre
;
Irrenanstalt
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; 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 Exclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
Migration and Model PoliciesWomen, 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 III; Book IV; Book V.
Description / Table of Contents:
Book VIBook VII; Book VIII; Book IX; Book X; Book XI; Book XII; 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"; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Description / Table of Contents:
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 t
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