The principal aim of this research is to look for the normative and political construction of illnesses considered ethnic specific, such as the sickle cell anemia, in the scope of the movements and forms of organization ...

This dissertation looks at the discussion that unfolds within the official STD/AIDS prevention model set up to provide attention to travestis involved in prostitution in the city of São Paulo. Using ethnographic methods, I ...

The major aim of this thesis is to introduce a reflection of the therapeutic model built by the Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) fellowship to care for the so-called alcoholism disease and to relate this model to the construction ...