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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

Institutional care --- Marginality, Social --- #SBIB:39A74 --- #SBIB:39A9 --- Exclusion, Social --- Marginal peoples --- Social exclusion --- Social marginality --- Benevolent institutions --- Care, Institutional --- Charitable institutions --- Homes (Institutions) --- Etnografie: Amerika --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) --- Soins en institutions --- Exclusion sociale --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Culture conflict --- Social isolation --- Sociology --- People with social disabilities --- Charities --- Public institutions --- Public welfare --- Deinstitutionalization

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Minority groups are underrepresented in the rehabilitation professions. This book offers guidance about views on disability among minorities & discusses how professionals dealing with a patient from a different background than their own can improve the services that they offer.

#SBIB:39A9 --- #SBIB:316.8H11 --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Welzijns- en sociale problemen: gehandicapten (fysiek, mentaal) --- Ethnic attitudes --- Minorities --- Minority people with disabilities --- People with disabilities --- Social work with minorities --- Services for --- Ethnic people with disabilities --- Minority handicapped --- Ethnic minorities --- Foreign population --- Minority groups --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Ethnic relations --- Cultural awareness --- Race awareness --- Persons --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Discrimination --- Majorities --- Plebiscite --- Race relations --- Segregation

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#SBIB:39A9 --- #SBIB:39A75 --- #SBIB:316.334.3M30 --- 397 <955> --- #GBIB: Camps --- 397 <955> Primitieve volkeren. Nomaden. Rassen. Tribus: gewoontes. Gebruiken--Nieuw-Guinea--(voormalig Nederlands) --- Primitieve volkeren. Nomaden. Rassen. Tribus: gewoontes. Gebruiken--Nieuw-Guinea--(voormalig Nederlands) --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Etnografie: Azië --- Medische sociologie: gezondheidsgedrag --- Theses

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Optometry --- Vision disorders --- Optométrie --- Vision, Troubles de la --- Optometry. --- Eye Diseases --- Eye --- Defective vision --- Disorders of vision --- Impaired vision --- Visual disorders --- Visual function disorders --- Visual handicaps --- Visual impairments --- Communicative disorders --- Disabilities --- Sensory disorders --- Eye Disorders --- Eye Disease --- Eye Disorder --- Ophthalmology --- Treatment --- Treatment. --- Accommodation and refraction --- Diseases --- Ophthalmology & Optometry --- Eye Diseases . --- Optometries --- Troubles de la vision --- Œil --- Diseases. --- Traitement --- Maladies. --- Diseases and defects --- Vision disorders.

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Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Social policy and particular groups --- Foucault, Michel --- Disability studies --- Sociology of disability --- Disabilities --- People with disabilities --- Philosophy --- Foucault, Michel, --- Disabilities - Philosophy --- Foucault, Michel, - 1926-1984 --- #PBIB:2005.2 --- #SBIB:316.8H11 --- Sociology of disablement --- Sociology of impairment --- Cripples --- Disabled --- Disabled people --- Disabled persons --- Handicapped --- Handicapped people --- Individuals with disabilities --- People with physical disabilities --- Persons with disabilities --- Physically challenged people --- Physically disabled people --- Physically handicapped --- Persons --- Education --- Disability --- Disabling conditions --- Handicaps --- Impairment --- Physical disabilities --- Physical handicaps --- Diseases --- Wounds and injuries --- Animals with disabilities --- Welzijns- en sociale problemen: gehandicapten (fysiek, mentaal) --- Sociological aspects --- Study and teaching --- Curricula --- Fūkūh, Mīshīl, --- Foucault, Michael, --- Fuko, Mišel, --- Pʻukʻo, --- Pʻukʻo, Misyel, --- Phoukō, Misel, --- Fuke --- 福柯 --- Fuḳo, Mishel,