%0 Journal Article
%T Antropologia no campo da sa¨˛de global
%A Biehl
%A JoŁżo
%J Horizontes Antropol¨®gicos
%D 2011
%I Programa de P¨®s-Gradua??o em Antropologia Social - IFCH-UFRGS
%R 10.1590/S0104-71832011000100009
%X in this article, i explore the limits of magic-bullet approaches to global health problems and show how people-centered initiatives challenge economic and human rights orthodoxies and enlarge our sense of what is socially possible and desirable. i draw from my long-term ethnographic study of the brazilian therapeutic response to hiv/aids and its repercussions through government, markets, health systems and personal lives. i also report on a new comparative project on the aftermath of large-scale pharmaceutical interventions in resource-poor settings. attending to both larger processes and to human singularities, the article opens a critical window into the values and the real-life outcomes of contemporary pharmaceutical and humanitarian interventions. as i critique institutional evidence-making practices i also reconsider anthropology and medicine's notions of responsibility and care.
%K ethnography
%K global health
%K pharmaceuticalization
%K social theory.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0104-71832011000100009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en