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Biocultural citizenship and embodying exceptionalism: Biopolitics for sickle cell disease in Brazil.
Creary, Melissa S.
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  • Creary MS; Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, 1415 Washington Heights, SPH II, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029, United States. Electronic address: mcreary@umich.edu.
Soc Sci Med ; 199: 123-131, 2018 02.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28477966
In 2006, the committee that developed the National Health Policy for the Black Population (NHPBP) chose sickle cell disease as their "flag to demand health rights." The drafting of this policy was official recognition from the Ministry of Health for racial differences of its citizens in order to address certain inequalities in the form of racial health reparations. Through an ethnographic study which consisted of participant observation, life-story and semi-structured interviews, and surveys in the urban centers of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Salvador, Belo Horizonte, and Brasília between November 2013 and November 2014, I introduce a new conceptual approach called biocultural citizenship. It is a flexible mode of enacting belonging that varies depending on disease status, skin color, social class, recognition of African lineage, and other identifiers. Using empirical evidence, this article explores how people living with sickle cell disease (SCD), civil society, and the Brazilian government-at state and federal levels-have contributed to the discourse on SCD as a "black" disease, despite a prevailing cultural ideology of racial mixture. Specifically, I demonstrate that the SCD movement strategically uses Blackness to make claims for health rights. Biocultural citizenship is dependent on the idea of biological and cultural difference that is coproduced by the State and Afro-Brazilian citizens. The use of biology to help legitimate cultural claims, especially in the Black Atlantic, contributes a new and distinct way to think about how race and skin color are used as tools of agency for diasporic communities.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Grupos Raciais / Disparidades nos Níveis de Saúde / Anemia Falciforme Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies / Qualitative_research Aspecto: Determinantes_sociais_saude / Equity_inequality / Patient_preference Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Brasil Idioma: En Revista: Soc Sci Med Ano de publicação: 2018 Tipo de documento: Article País de publicação: Reino Unido

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Grupos Raciais / Disparidades nos Níveis de Saúde / Anemia Falciforme Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies / Qualitative_research Aspecto: Determinantes_sociais_saude / Equity_inequality / Patient_preference Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Brasil Idioma: En Revista: Soc Sci Med Ano de publicação: 2018 Tipo de documento: Article País de publicação: Reino Unido