Temporary passage: state categories to refer to populations and institutions in the prison policy management model.

A document containing a prison policy management model was examined during a study of the governmental categories established to address confinement in Brazil. Based on Bourdieu and Hertz, an attempt was made to develop an ethnography attentive to the expressions used to refer to populations and institutions so that they could reveal ongoing terminological changes and maintenance. Deprivation of liberty is traversed by public policies and vice versa, pointing to prisons as "intersectoral spaces" and prisoners as "people deprived of liberty".

Concealment of financial aid? The Volta para Casa (Back Home) Program on documents and events.

A fundamental government initiative to change the living conditions of deinstitutionalized Brazilian people, the De Volta para Casa (Back Home) Program is formed by some elements, including the psychosocial rehabilitation financial aid. Thirty-four state and academic documents from ordinances to papers were gathered to identify which elements of the Program permeate the records and debates about it throughout the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform, converging with the studies of Juarez Pereira Furtado and Ligia Maria Vieira-da-Silva about the dynamics of scientific and bureaucratic fields, such as mental health. Furthermore, we ethnographed five events that gathered institutionalized people and other agents from this field.

Emergence of a Policy, closure of a sector: regarding the management of penitentiary health care in Brazil.

The aim of this study is to understand recent transformations in penitentiary health care management in Brazil, during the implementation of the National Policy for Comprehensive Health Care for People Deprived of Liberty in the Prison System, and the closure of the National Sector for Penitentiary Health Care. The scientific problem investigated is the language of penitentiary health care policy. The theoretical-methodological framework adopted is Pierre Bourdieu's genetic structuralism.

From patient to clinical case: an ethnography with psychiatric inpatient care releases.

Social Science contributions to the understanding of psychiatric care have highlighted the passage from person to patient as being crucial to the moral career of the mentally ill. In this article another moment relevant to a discussion on illness and social identity is investigated, namely the passage from patient to clinical case. Socio-anthropological fieldwork was conducted between 2007 and 2010 with users of a care network after release from psychological internment, their relatives and neighbors.

[Reform, responsibilities and networks: about mental health care].

In the context of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform family members and neighbors of psychiatric patients have been urged to ' participate' in the public policies, mainly as ' social support' although officially considered ' partners' . This reconfiguration of the relationship between State and civil society is reflected in the directive that the services have to take over the responsibility for territories, a change in the logic of supply and demand aimed at stimulating extra-hospital services such as Psychosocial Care Centers, the object of this study, to provide care to the population of a certain geographical area. The purpose of this article is to investigate the psychosocial technologies produced in this specific political, institutional and historical context such as mediation of social changes and conflicts.