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Contents

Introduction: “Dead alive, dead outside, alive inside”

PART ONE. VITA

A Zone of Social Abandonment

Brazil

Citizenship

PART TWO. CATARINA AND THE ALPHABET

Life of the Mind

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