Author, as appears in the article.: Wenceslau LD; Ortega F

Department: Antropologia, Filosofia i Treball Social

URV's Author/s: Ortega Guerrero, Francisco Javier

Keywords: Reparative ethnography Life Global mental-health Depression Brazil reparative ethnography politics perspectives life depression brazil

Abstract: Mental illness approaches in public health have resulted in controversies around the adequacy of interpretative and therapeutic models. These controversies engage polarized debates amid understandings of mental illnesses either as brain disorders or as socioculturally determined entities. Aiming to investigate how mental health care is implemented in a Latin American metropolis, we conducted an ethnographic study of the approach to depression in a primary care unit in Rio de Janeiro between 2016 and 2017. “Life” emerged from our fieldwork as the main local category for understanding the experiences of patients with depressive symptoms and the work of reengagement performed by family physicians. With this investigation, we seek to provide insights into an approach to mental illness in primary health care that moves away from polarized interpretive frameworks and remains open to the singularities of patients’ experiences of suffering.

Thematic Areas: Visual arts and performing arts Social sciences, biomedical Public, environmental & occupational health Medicine (miscellaneous) General medicine Enfermagem Ciencias sociales Antropología Anthropology

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

Author's mail: franciscojavier.ortega@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0002-5039-9449

Record's date: 2023-08-05

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Link to the original source: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/maq.12668

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 36 (1): 64-82

APA: Wenceslau LD; Ortega F (2022). From Person to Life: An Anthropological Examination of Primary Health Care Approach to Depression in Rio de Janeiro. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 36(1), 64-82. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12668

Article's DOI: 10.1111/maq.12668

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2022

Publication Type: Journal Publications