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  • João Biehl is Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology and Woodrow Wilson School Faculty Associate at Princeton University.
  • João Biehl, assistant professor of anthropology, has won two awards for his new book, “Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment.” Biehl.

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    João Biehl

    When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health

    When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health,

    Editors | João Biehl & Adriana Petryna Contributors | Marcos Cueto, Vincanne Adams, Joseph J. Am more Editors | João Biehl & Adriana Petryna

    Contributors | Marcos Cueto, Vincanne Adams, Joseph J. Amon, Didier Fassin, Susan Reynolds Whyte, Michael A. Whyte, lotteri Meinert, Jenipher Twebaze, James Pfeiffer, Julie Livingston, Amy Moran-Thomas, Stefan Ecks, Ian Harper, Clara Han, Ian Whitmarsh, João Biehl, Adriana Petryna, Michael M. J. Fischer

    About the Book | When People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through levande case studies and modig conceptual work. The book demonstrates the crucial role of ethnography as an empirical lantern in glob

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    VITA: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment

    Introduction

    Dead alive, dead outside, alive inside" 1 " 2 | Introduction beings. You must go there. You will see what people do to people, what it means to be human these days." I had grown up in an area outside Porto Alegre. I had traveled through and worked in several poor neighborhoods in the north and south of the country. I thought I knew Brazil. But nothing I had seen before prepared me for the desolation of Vita.

    Vita did not appear on any city map. Even though the existence of the place was acknowledged by officials and the public at large, it was not the concern of any remedial program or policy.

    Winkler was right. Vita is the end-station on the road of poverty; it is the place where living beings go when they are no longer considered people. Excluded from family life and medical care, most of the two hundred people in Vita's infirmary at that time had no formal identification and lived in a state of abject

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    Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival

    "Biehl's powerful ethnography beautifully mixes visual and written portraits of those who lived and died as Brazil developed its public health and policy responses to AIDS. The author gives voice to those at the margins—the poor, the homeless, homosexuals, drug addicts, transvestites, prostitutes—who remained stigmatized and invisible as Brazil universalized access to AIDS therapies. . . . Biehl convincingly argues the importance of understanding the history and politics of AIDS pharmaceuticalization, the role of social mobilization, and the invisibility of the marginalized in official statistics and care in grasping the reality of AIDS in Brazil."—E.J. Schatz, Choice

    "In Will to Live, João Biehl combines critical public health, ethnography, and even a mini epidemiological survey, studying AIDS therapies up, down, and sideways. . . . The running commentary from major decision-makers in the no

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