Dominque P Behague

Dados Biográficos

ID108998
NOMEDominque P Behague
PRENOMESDominque P
SOBRENOMEBehague
ASSINATURABEHAGUE D P
AFILIAÇÕESLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
ORCID0000-0001-8621-6942
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS38
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES266
TOTAL COMO AUTOR38
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1993
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H9

  • Growing up otherwise

    Open AccessDominque P Behague, Helen Gonçalves et al.ARTICLEEthos2026

    This paper proposes a reframing of how young men become embroiled—or not—in the systemic violence that infuses their daily lives. Most frameworks in health and social policy tend to approach violence as rooted in psycho‐developmental problems and/or social and structural determinants. These approaches can underemphasize the relational specificities and institutional dynamics through which violence is reproduced and might otherwise be interrupted.…

  • No more single stories

    Open AccessFarnaz Sabet, George C Patton et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

  • Rethinking and remaking “the social”

    Open AccessMikayla Syanne Alsopp, James Blair et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2023

    This paper presents findings from a qualitative study exploring how students at a university in the southern USA conceptualize, theorize, and attempt to influence the role ‘social factors’ play in mental illness and well-being. Drawing on models of research co-production and principles of critical pedagogy, a group of 10 university students (‘student researchers’) worked with a faculty member to develop and conduct the study. The results highligh…

  • Contested leadership and the governance of Covid-19 in Brazil

    Open AccessF Ortega, Dominque P BehagueARTICLEGlobal Public Health2022

    Strong public health governance and leadership driven by scientific evidence, community participation, and attention to social and structural determinants of health are key to effective covid-19 containment. Given the failure of the federal government in Brazil to adopt effective public health measures, state and municipal governments, as well as community activists, have stepped in to fill the void. This essay examines the synergistic role that …

  • The Politics of Clinic and Critique in Southern Brazil

    Open AccessDominque P BehagueARTICLETheory Culture & Society2022Referências: 32

    Drawing on a historical ethnography of how Brazil's post-dictatorial psychiatric reforms have shaped young people's lives, this paper builds on Eve Sedgwick's analysis of the hermeneutics of suspicion to show that narrow applications of Foucault's biopower concept nurture forms of resistance to bio-reductionism centred primarily on epistemic deconstruction. To unsettle this hermeneutic, I put young people's theories of power into conversation wit…

  • O que a medicina social latino-americana pode contribuir para os debates globais sobre as políticas da Covid-19

    Open AccessF Ortega, Dominque P BehagueARTICLEPhysis Revista de Saúde Coletiva2020Citada por: 7Referências: 15

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  • The Global Psyche

    Open AccessDominque P Behague, Dominique P Behague et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2020Citada por: 6Referências: 48

  • Adolescent Sex and Psyche in Brazil

    Open AccessDominque P BehagueARTICLECulture Medicine and Psychiatry2019

    Drawing on a historical ethnography conducted in Southern Brazil, this article explores how public health programs for adolescent reproductive and mental health have emerged in Brazil and begun to intersect with the growing field of “global mental health” (GMH). The story I recount begins not in the 2010s with the rapid rise of expert interest in adolescent health within GMH, but in the 1990s, the decade when young teens in Brazil were first comi…

  • Re-imagining global health through social medicine

    Open AccessVincanne Adams, Dominque P Behague et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2019

    The conceptual and practical work done by social medicine and global health have often overlapped. In this paper, we argue that new efforts to apprehend 'the social' in social medicine offer important insights to global health along five lines of critical analysis: (1) reconfigurations of the state and new forms of political activism, (2) philanthrocapitalism and the economisation of life, (3) The economy of attention, (4) anthropogenic climate c…

  • Psychiatry, Sex, and Science

    Open AccessDominque P Behague, Dominique P BehagueARTICLEMedical Anthropology2018Citada por: 1Referências: 26

    Research linking teen motherhood to psychoneurodevelopmental causes and pathologies has proliferated in the past two decades. In Brazil, a psychodevelopmental project of teen motherhood has gained traction despite many experts' long-standing commitment to psychodynamic psychiatry and social epidemiology, generating epistemic tension rather than substitution. Drawing on historical ethnography conducted in Southern Brazil, I explore how this projec…

  • Policy ideals and everyday politics in the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health—the role of ethnography

    Open AccessKaterini T Storeng, Dominque P Behague et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2017Referências: 9

  • Guilty until proven innocent”

    Open AccessKaterini T Storeng, Dominque P Behague et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2016

    The MMR - maternal mortality ratio - has risen from obscurity to become a major global health indicator, even appearing as an indicator of progress towards the global Sustainable Development Goals. This has happened despite intractable challenges relating to the measurement of maternal mortality. Even after three decades of measurement innovation, maternal mortality data are widely presumed to be of poor quality, or, as one leading measurement ex…

  • Lives in the balance”

    Open AccessKaterini T Storeng, Dominque P Behague et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2016Citada por: 11Referências: 48

    A decade ago, the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) was established to combat the growing fragmentation of global health action into uncoordinated, issue-specific efforts. Inspired by dominant global public-private partnerships for health, the PMNCH brought together previously competing advocacy coalitions for safe motherhood and child survival and attracted support from major donors, foundations and professional bodies. …

  • Psychiatry, bio-epistemes and the making of adolescence in southern Brazil

    Open AccessDominque P Behague, Dominique Pareja BéhagueARTICLEHistória Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos2016Citada por: 3Referências: 15

    Drawing on an ethnographic study in southern Brazil, this paper explores how therapists' attempts to "resist bioreductionist" pharmaceutical use both succeed and crumble. Using a comparative framing, I show that pharmaceuticalization can become an anesthetizing "lid" that interacts with young people's polarizing micro-politics and is an outgrowth of multi-generational medico-political family histories. This lid, however, is not air-tight and exce…

  • Shaping the modern child

    Open AccessDominque P Behague, Dominique P Behague et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2015Citada por: 4Referências: 14

  • Taking pills for developmental ails in Southern Brazil

    Open AccessDominque P BehagueARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2015Citada por: 7Referências: 17

  • Playing the Numbers Game

    Open AccessKaterini T Storeng, Dominque P Behague et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2014Citada por: 70Referências: 43

    Based on an ethnography of the international Safe Motherhood Initiative (SMI), this article charts the rise of evidence-based advocacy (EBA), a term global-level maternal health advocates have used to indicate the use of scientific evidence to bolster the SMI's authority in the global health arena. EBA represents a shift in the SMI's priorities and tactics over the past two decades, from a call to promote poor women's health on the grounds of fem…

  • Pragmatic politics and epistemological diversity

    Open AccessDominque P Behague, Katerini T StorengARTICLEEvidence & Policy2013Citada por: 11Referências: 14

    In recent years, the demand for cost-effective evidence of health impact has grown exponentially, often to the exclusion of other disciplines and of epidemiology's longstanding interest in the multivariate determinants of health. Drawing on an ethnography of the Safe Motherhood Initiative, this paper focuses on experts who, in producing historical case-study evidence, exceptionally inhabit a stigmatising epistemological position while still succe…

  • Taming troubled teens

    Open AccessDominque P Behague, Helen Denise Gonçalves Da Silva et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2012Citada por: 4Referências: 25

    Explanations for the association between teen-childbearing and subsequent mental morbidity vary considerably, from those based on neurological theories of development to those investigating underlying social and economic determinants. Based on longitudinal epidemiological and ethnographic sub-studies of the 1982 Pelotas birth cohort study, this paper explores the hypothesis that teen childbearing and subsequent mental morbidity have become associ…

  • Contraceptive medicalisation, fear of infertility and teenage pregnancy in Brazil

    Helen Denise Gonçalves Da Silva, Ana De Souza et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2011

    In Brazil, as in many other countries, teenage pregnancy is widely recognised as a public health problem. Buttressed by a public health science of the economics of teenage pregnancy that emphasises the postponement of parenthood as key to poverty reduction, young people's lack of appreciation for medical knowledge of contraceptives is most often credited for failed attempts to reduce teenage pregnancy. Based on a longitudinal ethnographic study c…

  • Evidence-based policy-making

    Open AccessDominque P Behague, Dominique Behague et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2009Citada por: 28Referências: 22

  • Psychiatry and Politics in Pelotas, Brazil

    Open AccessDominque P Behague, Dominique P BehagueARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2009Citada por: 14Referências: 48

    The world-wide emergence of categories for diagnosing mental health problems in children and youth such as conduct disorder is often attributed to the globalization of a highly biomedical form of psychiatry. In Brazil, a small group of therapists are resisting biomedicalization by keeping psychodynamic traditions alive and aiming to transform psychotherapy into a resource for politicized youth empowerment. Nevertheless, clinical practices demonst…

  • Anthropology and Epidemiology

    Open AccessDominque P Behague, Dominique Pareja Béhague et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2008

    Collaboration between anthropology and epidemiology has a long and tumultuous history. Based on empirical examples, this paper describes a number of epistemological lessons we have learned through our experience of cross disciplinary collaboration. Although critical of both mainstream epidemiology and medical anthropology, our analysis focuses on the implications of addressing each discipline's main epistemological differences, while addressing t…

  • Psychiatry and Military Conscription in Brazil

    Open AccessDominque P Behague, Dominique Pareja BéhagueARTICLECulture Medicine and Psychiatry2008

  • The Domains of Psychiatric Practice

    Open AccessDominque P Behague, Dominique Pareja BéhagueARTICLECulture Medicine and Psychiatry2008