Vita Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment

Name: Vita Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
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ISBN: 9780520272958

ISBN-10: 0520272951

ISBN-13: 9780520272958

Edition: 2nd 2013 (Revised)

Authors: Joï¿½o Biehl, Torben Eskerod, Joï¿½o Biehl

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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, 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 took form.As Biehl painstakingly relates Catarina's words to a vanished world and elucidates her…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/12/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 456
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.068
Language: English



Introduction: "Dead alive, dead outside, alive inside"



Vita


A Zone of Social Abandonment


Brazil


Citizenship



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



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


Migration and Model Policies


Women, Poverty, and Social Death


"I am like this because of life"


The Sense of Symptoms


Pharmaceutical Being



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



Biology and Ethics


Pain


Human Rights


Value Systems


Gene Expression and Social Abandonment


Family Tree


A Genetic Population


A Lost Chance



The Dictionary


"Underneath was this, which I do not attempt to name"



























































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