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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20240716115928.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780520272958 |
| 028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME |
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| Distributor Name |
International Book Distributors |
| Distributor address |
;Flat No.17 Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj,New Delhi |
| Bill Number |
;115313 |
| Bill Date |
;09/03/2020 |
| 028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME |
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| Distributor Name |
: International Book Distributors |
| Distributor address |
; Flat No.17 Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj,New Delhi |
| Bill Number |
: 120543 |
| Bill Date |
: 27/06/2024 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
302.540981 BIE |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Biehl, João |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Vita |
| Remainder of title |
: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment. |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
/João Biehl |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Berkeley |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
: University of California Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
, 2013. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
457 pages |
| Dimensions |
;24 cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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| Price amount |
2237 |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Contents note |
Cover; VITA; Title; Copyright; Dedication; 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 ExclusionMigration 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 IIIBook IV; Book V; Book VI; Book VII; Book VIII; Book IX; Book X; Book XI; BookXII; Book XIII; Book XIV; Book XV; Book XVI; Book XVII; Book XVIII; Book XIX; Conclusion: A way to the words --<br/>Postscript: I am part of the origins, not just of language, but of people --<br/>AFTERWORD; Return to Vita; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
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. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Social Sciences |
| 655 ## - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) |
| 655 ## - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
;Institutional care -- Brazil -- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul) |
| 655 ## - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
;Marginality, Social -- Brazil -- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul) |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
João Biehl |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Books |
