Author, as appears in the article.: Wenceslau, Leandro David; Ortega, Francisco
Department: Antropologia, Filosofia i Treball Social
URV's Author/s: Ortega Guerrero, Francisco Javier
Keywords: Reparative ethnography Primary health care Mental disorders Life Humans Global mental-health Depression Brazil Anthropology, medical 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 Ciencias humanas Antropología Anthropology
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: franciscojavier.ortega@urv.cat franciscojavier.ortega@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-5039-9449 0000-0002-5039-9449
Record's date: 2025-02-18
Paper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Paper original source: Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 36 (1): 64-82
APA: Wenceslau, Leandro David; Ortega, Francisco (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: 10.1111/maq.12668
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2022
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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