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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 Joao 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 condition, we learn of subjectivities unmade and remade under economic pressures, pharmaceuticals as moral technologies, a public common sense that lets the unsound and unproductive die, and anthropology's unique power to work through these juxtaposed fields. "Vita's" methodological innovations, bold fieldwork, and rigorous social theory make it an essential reading for anyone who is grappling with how to understand the conditions of life, thought and ethics in the contemporary world.

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Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520272951
ISBN-13
9780520272958
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111000783

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
456 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Vita : Life in AZONE of Social Abandonment
Publication Year
2013
Subject
Sociology / General, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Features
Revised
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Philosophy
Author
João Biehl
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
30.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number
2
LCCN
2005-041745
Dewey Edition
23
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
362.042509815
Edition Description
Revised Edition
Lc Classification Number
Hv63.B6b54 2012
Table of Content
Introduction: "Dead Alive, Dead Outside, Alive Inside" PART ONE. VITA A Zone of Social Abandonment Brazil Citizenship PART TWO. CATARINA AND THE ALPHABET The Life of the Mind A 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 Migration 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 III Book IV Book V Book VI Book 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" Afterword Return to Vita Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2013

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