Vita :

Biehl, João Guilherme.

Vita : life in a zone of social abandonment / João Biehl ; photographs by Torben Eskerod ; updated with a new foreword and photo essay. - 1 online resource (452 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

part one. Vita -- part two. Catarina and the alphabet -- part three. The medical archive -- part four. The family -- part five. Biology and ethics -- part six. The dictionary.

9780520951464 (e-book)


Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)


Institutional care--Brazil--Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)
Marginality, Social--Brazil--Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul)


Electronic books.

HV63.B6 / B54 2013eb

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