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Corpos Resistentes. Imigração, racismo e trabalho agrícola nos EUA

Seth M. Holmes
2020
Seth Holmes - Nesta investigação sobre o trabalho agrícola realizado por imigrantes mexicanos nos Estados Unidos, o antropólogo Seth Holmes analisa como as forças de mercado, os sentimentos anti-imigração e o racismo destroem os corpos e as vidas.


Ele acompanhou o percurso dos imigrantes indígenas desde as montanhas de Oaxaca até aos campos de trabalho agrícola nos Estados Unidos.

Este é um livro sobre como a desigualdade social se transforma em sofrimento e violência e confronta corpos que teimam em resistir.

Fruta fresca, cuerpos marchitos

Seth M. Holmes
2017

Seth Holmes - Este libro muestra la realidad de los migrantes mexicanos a Estados Unidos, para el trabajo agrícola. Además de un texto académico, es un libro que puede leerse como libro de aventuras. Su autor hace una crónica descarnada de lo que han tenido que pasar los indígenas mexicanos en su proceso migratorio, el cruce del desierto, el peligro, la explotación laboral y la realidad de salud. Un texto que resulta sobrecogedor. El libro ha sido ganador de varios premios como el premio Margaret Mead en 2014, el Premio de la Antropología del Trabajo en el 2013 o el...

Making Health Public: How News Coverage Is Remaking Media, Medicine, and Contemporary Life

Charles Briggs
Daniel C. Hallin
2016

By Charles L. Briggs and Daniel HallinThis book examines the relationship between media and medicine, considering the fundamental role of news coverage in constructing wider cultural understandings of health and disease. The authors advance the notion of ‘biomediatization’ and demonstrate how health knowledge is co-produced through connections between dispersed sites and forms of expertise. The chapters offer an innovative combination of media content analysis and ethnographic data on the production and circulation of health news, drawing on work with journalists,...

Tell Me Why My Children Died: Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice

Charles Briggs
Clara Mantini-Briggs
2016

Charles L. Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs -Tell Me Why My Children Died tells the gripping story of indigenous leaders' efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-two children and six young adults in a Venezuelan rain forest between 2007 and 2008. In this pathbreaking book, Charles L. Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs relay the nightmarish and difficult experiences of doctors, patients, parents, local leaders, healers, and epidemiologists; detail how journalists first created a smoke screen, then projected the epidemic worldwide; discuss the Chávez...

Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health

Eugene Richardson
2020

By Eugene T. Richardson - In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson, a physician and an anthropologist, contends that public health practices—from epidemiological modeling and outbreak containment to Big Data and causal inference—play an essential role in perpetuating a range of global inequities. Drawing on postcolonial theory, medical anthropology, and critical science studies, Richardson demonstrates the ways in which the flagship discipline of epidemiology has been shaped by the colonial, racist, and patriarchal system that had its inception in 1492.

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What's the Use of Race? Modern Governance and the Biology of Difference

Ian Whitmarsh
David S. Jones
2010

Edited by Ian Whitmarsh and David JonesThe post–civil rights era perspective of many scientists and scholars was that race was nothing more than a social construction. Recently, however, the relevance of race as a social, legal, and medical category has been reinvigorated by science, especially by discoveries in genetics. Although in 2000 the Human Genome Project reported that humans shared 99.9 percent of their genetic code, scientists soon began to argue that the degree of variation was actually greater than this, and that this variation maps naturally onto...

Commodifying Bodies

Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Loïc Wacquant
2003

Edited by Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Loïc Wacquant - Increasingly the body is a possession that does not belong to us. It is bought and sold, bartered and stolen, marketed wholesale or in parts. The professions - especially reproductive medicine, transplant surgery, and bioethics but also journalism and other cultural specialists - have been pliant partners in this accelerating commodification of live and dead human organisms. Under the guise of healing or research, they have contributed to a new 'ethic of parts' for which the divisible body is severed from the self, torn...

Una "enfermedad monstruo:" Indigenas derribando el cerco de la discriminacion racial en salud (A Monster Disease: Indigenous Peoples Breaking Down the Wall of Health-Based Discrimination)

Charles Briggs
Enrique Moraleda Izco
Norbelys Gómez
Conrado Moraleda Izco
Tirso Gómez
Clara Mantini-Briggs
2015

By Charles L. Briggs, Enrique Moraleda Izco, Norbelys Gómez, Conrado Moraleda Izco, Tirso Gómez, and Clara Mantini-Briggs Entre 2007 y 2008, una enfermedad misteriosa mató a 38 niños, niñas y jóvenes indígenas warao en Delta Amacuro, Venezuela. Médicos, epidemiólogos y curadores fracasaron en diagnosticarla. La epidemia ocurrió en uno de los contextos más favorables en materia de salud pública, una prioridad para el gobierno revolucionario del presidente Hugo Chávez Frías. Sin embargo, los acontecimientos narrados en este libro ponen de...

Violence at the Urban Margins

Javier Auyero
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Philippe Bourgois
2015

Edited by Javier Auyero, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, and Philippe Bourgois In the Americas, debates around issues of citizen's public safety--from debates that erupt after highly publicized events, such as the shootings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin, to those that recurrently dominate the airwaves in Latin America--are dominated by members of the middle and upper-middle classes. However, a cursory count of the victims of urban violence in the Americas reveals that the people suffering the most from violence live, and die, at the lowest of the socio-symbolic order, at...

Metrics: What Counts in Global Health

Vincanne Adams
2016

Edited by Vincanne Adams - This volume's contributors evaluate the accomplishments, limits, and consequences of using quantitative metrics in global health. Whether analyzing maternal mortality rates, the relationships between political goals and metrics data, or the links between health outcomes and a program's fiscal support, the contributors question the ability of metrics to solve global health problems. They capture a moment when global health scholars and practitioners must evaluate the potential effectiveness and pitfalls of different metrics—even as they...