Introduction - Health/Illness, Biosocialities and Culture

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2489031
AutoresCarlos Guilherme Do Valle (0000-0001-5855-7774, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, autor correspondente), Sahra Gibbons (0000-0002-5185-9750, University College London)
Ano2015
Volume12
Fascículo1
Páginas67-74
Data de publicação2015-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoVibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1809-4341 • E-ISSN: 1809-4341
EditoraFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1809-43412015v12n1p067
OpenAlexW2267616064
SCIELO_PIDS1809-43412015000100067
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências 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