Beschreibung:
This book provides a critical analysis of the experiences of people with disabilities in Latin America. It covers a wide range of topics related to intellectual and psychosocial disabilities. Written by Latin American researchers and adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, it provides an original sociocultural contribution to bioethics and disability studies literature. It presents an in-depth overview of philosophical, ethical, legal, political and social issues. At the same time, it offers a contribution to the global scientific community inasmuch it discusses theoretical references from South America in connection with those from Europe and the United States. The basic questions dealt with range from criteria for human flourishing to questions of philosophy of mind, and neuroethics through phenomenological and aesthetic approaches to intellectual and psychosocial disabilities. The legal and political investigations explore the rights of those affected and the processes of their self-organization. The authors address the dynamics of medicalization and demedicalization, the practices of psychiatric institutionalization and the treatment of children with antipsychotics. This book appeals to psychologists, social scientists, bioethicists, healthcare personnel, philosophers, and lawyers working with cases related to people with disabilities.
This book provides a critical analysis of the experiences of people with disabilities in Latin America. It covers a wide range of topics related to intellectual and psychosocial disabilities. Written by Latin American researchers and adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, it provides an original sociocultural contribution to bioethics and disability studies literature. It presents an in-depth overview of philosophical, ethical, legal, political and social issues. At the same time, it offers a contribution to the global scientific community inasmuch it discusses theoretical references from South America in connection with those from Europe and the United States. The basic questions dealt with range from criteria for human flourishing to questions of philosophy of mind, and neuroethics through phenomenological and aesthetic approaches to intellectual and psychosocial disabilities. The legal and political investigations explore the rights of those affected and the processes of their self-organization. The authors address the dynamics of medicalization and demedicalization, the practices of psychiatric institutionalization and the treatment of children with antipsychotics. This book appeals to psychologists, social scientists, bioethicists, healthcare personnel, philosophers, and lawyers working with cases related to people with disabilities.
Part I: SUBJECTS WITH INTELLECTUAL AND PSYCHOSOCIAL DISABILITIES.- Chapter 1. Empathizing with the Intellectually Disabled.- Chapter 2. Experts by Experience, Demedicalization and the Emergence of Alternative Approaches to Mental Health Care: Gaining Autonomy & Medication Management (GAM) in Brazil.- Chapter 3. Practice, Human Flourishing and Centres for Psychosocial Attention: A MacIntyrean Analysis from Both the User’s and the Community’s Standpoints.- Chapter 4. The Phenomenological Model as a Basis for the Inclusion of People with Intellectual Disabilities and Psychosocial Impact.- Part II: MORAL AND LEGAL AGENCY.- Chapter 5. Argentina’s Mental Health Law: Sociocultural Questions regarding the Normative Framework.- Chapter 6. Legislation and Practices of Psychiatric Institutionalization in Brazil: A Foucauldian Interpretation of Barbacena’s Holocaust.- Chapter 7. "Nootropics in the Era of Affective Capitalism: Drug Consumption and Discourse Effects".- Chapter 8. The Body in OCemitério dos Vivos by Lima Barreto: An Aesthetic Phenomenological Reflection on the Practice of Norms.- Chapter 9. The Rights of Children with Psychosocial Disabilities and the Prescription of Antipsychotics in Childhood.- Chapter 10. “So that in the practice of good manners, she will find a dignified and happy life”: Institutional Practices towards Incarcerated Women (Brazil, 1930s).
