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1 online resource (457 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-430) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
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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Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) |
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Institutional care -- Brazil -- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
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Institutional care. |
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Brazil -- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul) |
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Marginality, Social -- Brazil -- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
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Marginality, Social. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Biehl, João. Vita : Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2013 9780520272958 |
| ISBN |
9780520951464 (electronic book) |
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0520951468 (electronic book) |
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1299952887 (e-book) |
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9781299952881 (e-book) |
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9780520272958 (paperback) |
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0520272951 (paperback) |
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