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4While Alzheimer's might be associated with a difficulty to express oneself, Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann addresses this topic by examining experiences with Alzheimer's based on narratives. In this original contribution, she studies the nexus of life stories, subjectivity, fragmentation, and fiction. The philosophical basis of this research is phenomenology from the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century, specifically that of Husserl and above all that of Merleau-Ponty. This work…Read more
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7Legislation and Practices of Psychiatric Institutionalization in Brazil: A Foucauldian Interpretation of Barbacena’s HolocaustIn Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann & Sandra Caponi (eds.), Latin American Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Bioethics and Disabilities, Springer Nature. pp. 73-92. 2023.The Brazilian Holocaust was a tragedy that took place at the Hospital Colônia de Barbacena between the 1930’s and the 1980’s, killing over 60,000 people due to hunger, malnutrition, open sewage, the cold, medical experiments gone wrong, severe punishments, and diseases, only coming to an end with the Psychiatric Reform in Brazil, which took place in the last decade of the twentieth century. With this in mind, we will tell the story of Luizinho, Corporal and Conceição – three patients who were vi…Read more
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2The Body in O Cemitério dos Vivos by Lima Barreto: An Aesthetic Phenomenological Reflection on the Practice of NormsIn Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann & Sandra Caponi (eds.), Latin American Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Bioethics and Disabilities, Springer Nature. pp. 105-123. 2023.This chapter deals with two philosophical interpretations of a novel intitled O Cemitério dos Vivos by Lima Barreto, an Afro-Brazilian author of the early twentieth century. These interpretations are anchored in Merleau-Ponty’s and Levinas’s phenomenologies. This chapter intends to analyse how psychiatric, legal and moral norms were applied to the main character with psychosocial disability and to other subjects locked up in a psychiatric hospital in Rio de Janeiro.
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8Latin American Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Bioethics and Disabilities (edited book)Springer Nature. 2023.This book provides a critical analysis of the experiences of people with disabilities in Latin America. It covers a wide range of topics related to intellectual and psychosocial disabilities. Written by Latin American researchers and adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, it provides an original sociocultural contribution to bioethics and disability studies literature. It presents an in-depth overview of philosophical, ethical, legal, political and social issues. At the same time, it offers …Read more
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Are Human Beings with Extreme Mental Disabilities and Animals Comparable? An Account of PersonalityIn Visa A. J. Kurki & Tomasz Pietrzykowski (eds.), Legal Personhood: Animals, Artificial Intelligence and the Unborn, Springer. 2017.
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28Critérios éticos e políticos para a triagem em tempos de crise: pensando a alocação de recursos escassos a partir da deficiênciaVoluntas: Revista Internacional de Filosofia 11. 2020.A crise sanitária global provocada pela Covid-19 impôs um cenário crítico de escassez de recursos médicos. As pessoas com deficiência, nessas circunstâncias, são sujeitadas a maior vulnerabilidade do que ocorreria em circunstâncias normais. À luz dessa realidade, nos propomos a apresentar alguns critérios de alocação de recursos empregados durante a crise, destacando seu caráter nocivo para às pessoas com deficiência, e analisar de que forma o princípio da não-discriminação pode, se tomado como …Read more
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Federal University of Rio de JaneiroAdjunct Professor (with Tenure)
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil