Introduction - Health/Illness, Biosocialities and Culture

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2489031
AutoresCarlos Guilherme Do Valle (0000-0001-5855-7774, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, autor de correspondencia), Sahra Gibbons (0000-0002-5185-9750, University College London)
Año2015
Volumen12
Número1
Páginas67-74
Fecha de publicación2015-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaVibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1809-4341 • E-ISSN: 1809-4341
EditorialFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1809-43412015v12n1p067
OpenAlexW2267616064
SCIELO_PIDS1809-43412015000100067
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas14

In this dossier, we present 10 articles exploring the theme of “Health/Illness, Biosocialities and Culture”. Addressed to a larger non-Portuguese speaking audience, our aim is to promote the research that has been developed by Brazilian Anthropologists from different generations, academic disciplines and university institutions on a variety of topics associated with this central theme. The articles presented here highlight the diverse ways that medical knowledge and technologies are being constituted by and constitutive of culture, politics, ethics and identity in Brazil. In doing so they extend and bring to bear novel theoretical perspectives in approaching questions of biosocialities, health and illness

Aesthetics · Engineering ethics · Health care · Political science · Politics · Portuguese · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of health and illness · Engineering · Law · Race, Genetics, and Society