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- Title
Medicalización psiquiátrica en tres prisiones femeninas brasileras: un abordaje etnográfico sobre los itinerarios de criminalización, patologización y farmacologización.
- Authors
Ordoñez-Vargas, Laura; Margarita Cortés-García, Claudia
- Abstract
This article analyzes the psychiatric medicalization of women in three Brazilian women's prisons, from the fields of mental health, the anthropology of confinement, and gender studies. A qualitative study employing ethnographic methods was carried out from October 2006 to February 2007, which included participant observation, informal conversations, semi-structured interviews, and life histories. Understood as a state device of power, psychiatric medicalization processes are marked by three itineraries: the mass criminalization of women, pathologization of women's crimes, and psychiatric pharmaceuticalization (especially through the administration of psychoactive drugs). These processes thus establish a vicious cycle that perpetuates or produces the disorders that psychiatry seeks to heal and enables the continuity of drug use (illicit-licit-illicit) and its ties to the illegal drug market, while highlighting how gender - in its intersections with other categories of differentiation - influences the production of mental illnesses, which must be treated as a public health problem that extends beyond the walls of women's prisons.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; BRAZILIANS; DRUG administration; PSYCHIATRIC drugs; GENDER; WOMEN criminals
- Publication
Salud Colectiva, 2020, Vol 16, p1
- ISSN
1669-2381
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18294/sc.2020.2507