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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.An instant classic, Vita has been widely acclaimed for its bold fieldwork, theoretical innovation, and literary force. Reflecting on how Catarina's life story continues, this updated edition offers the reader a powerful new afterword and gripping new photographs following Biehl and Eskerod's return to Vita. Anthropology at its finest, Vita is essential reading for anyone who is grappling with how to understand the conditions of life, thought, and ethics in the contemporary world.

Institutional care --- Marginality, Social --- Benevolent institutions --- Care, Institutional --- Charitable institutions --- Homes (Institutions) --- Charities --- Public institutions --- Public welfare --- Deinstitutionalization --- Exclusion, Social --- Marginal peoples --- Social exclusion --- Social marginality --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Culture conflict --- Social isolation --- Sociology --- People with social disabilities --- Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) --- anthropology and social theory. --- anthropology students. --- brazilian culture. --- brazilian economy. --- brazilian ethnography. --- brazilian health care. --- cultural anthropology. --- ethics and morality. --- healthcare and poverty. --- international health care. --- international mental health. --- international studies. --- latin american culture. --- latin american healthcare. --- medical anthropology. --- mental illness. --- social services and welfare. --- south american anthropology. --- south american culture. --- south american ethnography. --- south american mental health. --- Porto Alegre (Brasil) --- Brasil

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This innovative volume is an extended intellectual conversation about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today. Examining the ethnography of the modern subject, this preeminent group of scholars probes the continuity and diversity of modes of personhood across a range of Western and non-Western societies. Contributors consider what happens to individual subjectivity when stable or imagined environments such as nations and communities are transformed or displaced by free trade economics, terrorism, and war; how new information and medical technologies reshape the relation one has to oneself; and which forms of subjectivity and life possibilities are produced against a world in pieces. The transdisciplinary conversation includes anthropologists, historians of science, psychologists, a literary critic, a philosopher, physicians, and an economist. The authors touch on how we think and write about contingency, human agency, and ethics today.

Ethnology --- Subjectivity. --- Ethnopsychology. --- Medical anthropology. --- Research. --- Philosophy. --- anthropologists. --- economists. --- ethnographers. --- ethnography. --- free trade economics. --- human agency. --- literary critics. --- medical technologies. --- modern philosophy. --- modern subject. --- modes of being. --- multidisciplinary. --- national identity. --- nationalism. --- nonfiction. --- nonwestern societies. --- personal identity. --- personal lives. --- personhood. --- philosophers. --- physicians. --- psychologists. --- science historians. --- social scholars. --- social sciences. --- subjectivity. --- terrorism. --- transformed communities. --- war. --- western societies.

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"When People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through vivid case studies and bold conceptual work. The book demonstrates the crucial role of ethnography as an empirical lantern in global health, arguing for a more comprehensive, people-centered approach. Topics include the limits of technological quick fixes in disease control, the moral economy of global health science, the unexpected effects of massive treatment rollouts in resource-poor contexts, and how right-to-health activism coalesces with the increased influence of the pharmaceutical industry on health care. The contributors explore the altered landscapes left behind after programs scale up, break down, or move on. We learn that disease is really never just one thing, technology delivery does not equate with care, and biology and technology interact in ways we cannot always predict. The most effective solutions may well be found in people themselves, who consistently exceed the projections of experts and the medical-scientific, political, and humanitarian frameworks in which they are cast.When People Come First sets a new research agenda in global health and social theory and challenges us to rethink the relationships between care, rights, health, and economic futures"--

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