Psychiatry, bio-epistemes and the making of adolescence in southern Brazil
Abstract Drawing on an ethnographic study in southern Brazil, this paper explores how therapists’ attempts to “resist bioreductionist” pharmaceutical use both succeed and crumble. Using a comparative framing, I show that pharmaceuticalization can become an anesthetizing “lid” that interacts with you...
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| description | Abstract Drawing on an ethnographic study in southern Brazil, this paper explores how therapists’ attempts to “resist bioreductionist” pharmaceutical use both succeed and crumble. Using a comparative framing, I show that pharmaceuticalization can become an anesthetizing “lid” that interacts with young people’s polarizing micro-politics and is an outgrowth of multi-generational medico-political family histories. This lid, however, is not air-tight and exceptionalities are born out of these very same histories. I argue that both pharmaceuticalization and exceptions to it emerge not through “resistance” to biopsychiatric logics but from the transformative possibilities that the patterned co-production of social, political, and psychiatric life affords. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e3c274afd9da47e59aac7a2cdd5994762025-08-20T03:39:26ZengFundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo CruzHistória, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos1678-475823113115410.1590/S0104-59702016000100009S0104-59702016000100131Psychiatry, bio-epistemes and the making of adolescence in southern BrazilDominique Pareja BéhagueAbstract Drawing on an ethnographic study in southern Brazil, this paper explores how therapists’ attempts to “resist bioreductionist” pharmaceutical use both succeed and crumble. Using a comparative framing, I show that pharmaceuticalization can become an anesthetizing “lid” that interacts with young people’s polarizing micro-politics and is an outgrowth of multi-generational medico-political family histories. This lid, however, is not air-tight and exceptionalities are born out of these very same histories. I argue that both pharmaceuticalization and exceptions to it emerge not through “resistance” to biopsychiatric logics but from the transformative possibilities that the patterned co-production of social, political, and psychiatric life affords.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-59702016000100131&lng=en&tlng=enBrazilpharmaceuticalsbioreductionismepistemologyhistory |
| spellingShingle | Dominique Pareja Béhague Psychiatry, bio-epistemes and the making of adolescence in southern Brazil História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos Brazil pharmaceuticals bioreductionism epistemology history |
| title | Psychiatry, bio-epistemes and the making of adolescence in southern Brazil |
| title_full | Psychiatry, bio-epistemes and the making of adolescence in southern Brazil |
| title_fullStr | Psychiatry, bio-epistemes and the making of adolescence in southern Brazil |
| title_full_unstemmed | Psychiatry, bio-epistemes and the making of adolescence in southern Brazil |
| title_short | Psychiatry, bio-epistemes and the making of adolescence in southern Brazil |
| title_sort | psychiatry bio epistemes and the making of adolescence in southern brazil |
| topic | Brazil pharmaceuticals bioreductionism epistemology history |
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