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Psychiatry, bio-epistemes and the making of adolescence in southern Brazil

Overview of attention for article published in História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, March 2016
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  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (53rd percentile)

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Title
Psychiatry, bio-epistemes and the making of adolescence in southern Brazil
Published in
História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos, March 2016
DOI 10.1590/s0104-59702016000100009
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Authors

Dominique Pareja Béhague

Abstract

Drawing on an ethnographic study in southern Brazil, this paper explores how therapists' attempts to "resist bioreductionist" pharmaceutical use both succeed and crumble. Using a comparative framing, I show that pharmaceuticalization can become an anesthetizing "lid" that interacts with young people's polarizing micro-politics and is an outgrowth of multi-generational medico-political family histories. This lid, however, is not air-tight and exceptionalities are born out of these very same histories. I argue that both pharmaceuticalization and exceptions to it emerge not through "resistance" to biopsychiatric logics but from the transformative possibilities that the patterned co-production of social, political, and psychiatric life affords.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 16 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 1 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 6%
Unknown 14 88%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 2 13%
Unknown 14 88%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 April 2016.
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#2,496,358
of 25,457,858 outputs
Outputs from História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos
#79
of 1,628 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#38,494
of 312,788 outputs
Outputs of similar age from História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos
#8
of 26 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 1,628 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
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