{"product_id":"vita-9780520272958","title":"Vita","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZones 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 title centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: \"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","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864879837527,"sku":"9780520272958","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520272958.jpg?v=1722273254","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/vita-9780520272958","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}