The Resource Vita : Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
Vita : Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
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- 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 t
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (416 pages)
- Contents
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- Isbn
- 9781282763111
- Label
- Vita : Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
- Title
- Vita
- Title remainder
- Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
- Subject
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- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
- Armoede
- Behavior
- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities
- Brazil
- Brazil -- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
- Brazilië
- Delivery of Health Care
- Disabled Persons
- Electronic books
- Erlebnisbericht
- Gehandicapten
- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services
- Health Services
- Institutional care
- Institutional care -- Brazil | Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
- Institutionalization
- Irrenanstalt
- Marginality, Social
- Marginality, Social -- Brazil | Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
- Marginaux -- Brésil | Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
- Mental Health Services
- Mentally Ill Persons
- Named Groups
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology
- Patient Care
- Persons
- Psychiatry and Psychology
- Pôrto Alegre
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
- Social Behavior
- Social Isolation
- Social Sciences
- Social Sciences
- Social Welfare & Social Work - General
- Sociology
- Soins en institutions -- Brésil | Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
- Therapeutics
- Vita (Asile : Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul), Brésil)
- Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
- Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
- Zieken
- Social Welfare & Social Work
- Language
- eng
- 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 t
- Action
- digitized
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Biehl, João
- Dewey number
- 302.540981
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- HV63.B6
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- NLM call number
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- 2005 I-073
- WM 30
- NLM item number
- B586v 2005
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Eskerod, Torben
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
- Institutional care
- Marginality, Social
- Patient Care
- Sociology
- Therapeutics
- Behavior
- Social Sciences
- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services
- Persons
- Psychiatry and Psychology
- Named Groups
- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
- Delivery of Health Care
- Health Services
- Social Behavior
- Disabled Persons
- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities
- Mental Health Services
- Institutionalization
- Mentally Ill Persons
- Social Isolation
- Brazil
- Vita (Asile : Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul), Brésil)
- Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
- Soins en institutions
- Marginaux
- PSYCHOLOGY
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Institutional care
- Marginality, Social
- Brazil
- Pôrto Alegre
- Armoede
- Zieken
- Gehandicapten
- Brazilië
- Social Welfare & Social Work
- Social Sciences
- Social Welfare & Social Work - General
- Irrenanstalt
- Label
- Vita : Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Control code
- 773564870
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (416 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781282763111
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttsz2mc
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)773564870
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
- Label
- Vita : Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Control code
- 773564870
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (416 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781282763111
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttsz2mc
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)773564870
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Subject
- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
- Armoede
- Behavior
- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities
- Brazil
- Brazil -- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
- Brazilië
- Delivery of Health Care
- Disabled Persons
- Electronic books
- Erlebnisbericht
- Gehandicapten
- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services
- Health Services
- Institutional care
- Institutional care -- Brazil | Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
- Institutionalization
- Irrenanstalt
- Marginality, Social
- Marginality, Social -- Brazil | Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
- Marginaux -- Brésil | Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
- Mental Health Services
- Mentally Ill Persons
- Named Groups
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology
- Patient Care
- Persons
- Psychiatry and Psychology
- Pôrto Alegre
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
- Social Behavior
- Social Isolation
- Social Sciences
- Social Sciences
- Social Welfare & Social Work - General
- Sociology
- Soins en institutions -- Brésil | Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
- Therapeutics
- Vita (Asile : Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul), Brésil)
- Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
- Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
- Zieken
- Social Welfare & Social Work
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