Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: "Dead alive, dead outside, alive inside" -- PART ONE. VITA -- A Zone of Social Abandonment -- Brazil -- Citizenship -- PART TWO. CATARINA AND THE ALPHABET -- Life of the Mind -- Society of Bodies -- Inequality -- Ex-Human -- The House and the Animal -- "Love is the illusion of the abandoned" -- Social Psychosis -- An Illness of Time -- God, Sex, and Agency -- PART THREE. THE MEDICAL ARCHIVE -- Public Psychiatry -- Her Life as a Typical Patient -- Democratization and the Right to Health -- Economic Change and Mental Suffering -- Medical Science -- End of a Life -- Voices -- Care and Exclusion -- Migration and Model Policies -- Women, Poverty, and Social Death -- "I am like this because of life' -- The Sense of Symptoms -- Pharmaceutical Being -- PART FOUR. THE FAMILY -- Ties -- Ataxia -- Her House -- Brothers -- Children, In-Laws, and the Ex-Husband -- Adoptive Parents -- "To want my body as a medication, my body" -- Everyday Violence -- PART FIVE. BIOLOGY AND ETHICS -- Pain -- Human Rights -- Value Systems -- Gene Expression and Social Abandonment -- Family Tree -- A Genetic Population -- A Lost Chance -- PART SIX. THE DICTIONARY -- "Underneath was this, which I do not attempt to name" -- Book I -- Book II -- Book III -- Book IV -- Book V -- Book VI -- Book VII -- Book VIII -- Book IX -- Book X -- Book XI -- Book XII -- Book XIII -- Book XIV -- Book XV -- Book XVI -- Book XVII -- Book XVIII -- Book XIX -- Conclusion: "A way to the words" -- Postscript: "I am part of the origins, not just of language, but of people" -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.