Vita

Introduction: "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