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The Politics of Clinic and Critique in Southern Brazil by Béhague, Dominique P.

“…Drawing on a historical ethnography of how Brazil’s post-dictatorial psychiatric reforms have shaped young people’s lives, this paper builds on Eve Sedgwick’s…”
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"Playing the Numbers Game": Evidence-based Advocacy and the Technocratic Narrowing of the Safe Motherhood Initiative by Storeng, Katerini T., Béhague, Dominique P.

“…Based on an ethnography of the international Safe Motherhood Initiative (SMI), this article charts the rise of evidence-based advocacy (EBA), a term…”
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"Guilty until proven innocent": the contested use of maternal mortality indicators in global health by Storeng, Katerini T., Béhague, Dominique P.

“…The MMR - maternal mortality ratio - has risen from obscurity to become a major global health indicator, even appearing as an indicator of progress towards the…”
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Taking pills for developmental ails in Southern Brazil: The biologization of adolescence? by Béhague, Dominique P.

“…In the late 1990s researchers in Pelotas Southern Brazil began documenting what they considered to be unacceptably high rates of licensed psychotropic use…”
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Lives in the balance: The politics of integration in the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health by Storeng, Katerini T, Béhague, Dominique P

“…A decade ago, the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) was established to combat the growing fragmentation of global health action into…”
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Adolescent Sex and Psyche in Brazil: Surveillance, Critique and Global Mental Health by Béhague, Dominique P.

“…Drawing on a historical ethnography conducted in Southern Brazil, this article explores how public health programs for adolescent reproductive and mental…”
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The politicizing clinic: insights on ‘the social’ for mental health policy and practice by Béhague, Dominique P., Gonçalves, Helen, da Cruz, Suélen Henriques, de Cruz, Larissa, Horta, Bernardo L., Lima, Natália P.

“…Purpose In this paper, we explore how Brazilian socially sensitive therapy can respond to care-users’ desire to change the social and political forces shaping…”
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Dialogic Praxis — A 16-Year-Old Boy with Anxiety in Southern Brazil by Béhague, Dominique P, Frankfurter, Raphael G, Hansen, Helena, Victora, Cesar G

“…Sent to a psychiatrist because of aggressive behavior and social withdrawal, a Brazilian teenager is empowered by the doctor’s dialogic approach and addresses…”
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The Global Psyche: Experiments in the Ethics and Politics of Mental Life by Béhague, Dominique P., MacLeish, Kenneth

“…Across hemispheres, nations, and domains of social life, the language of psychiatry and mental health constitutes an increasingly universal frame for suffering…”
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Shaping the modern child: Genealogies and ethnographies of developmental science by Béhague, Dominique P., Lézé, Samuel

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Psychiatry, Sex, and Science: The Making of "Adolescent" Motherhood in Southern Brazil by Béhague, Dominique P

“…Research linking teen motherhood to psychoneurodevelopmental causes and pathologies has proliferated in the past two decades. In Brazil, a psychodevelopmental…”
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Policy ideals and everyday politics in the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health—the role of ethnography by Storeng, Katerini T, Béhague, Dominique P

“…Thank you for the opportunity to respond to the commentary entitled ‘Realizing the Promise of The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health’ (Fassil…”
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Collapsing the Vertical-Horizontal Divide: An Ethnographic Study of Evidence-Based Policymaking in Maternal Health by Behague, Dominique P, Storeng, Katerini T

“…Using the international maternal health field as a case study, we draw on ethnographic research to investigate how public health researchers and policy experts…”
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Consumer demand for caesarean sections in Brazil: population based birth cohort study linking ethnographic and epidemiological methods by BEHAGUE, Dominique P, VICTORA, Cesar G, BARROS, Fernando C

“…OBJECTIVES: To investigate why some women prefer caesarean sections and how decisions to medicalise birthing are influenced by patients, doctors, and the…”
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Psychiatry and Politics in Pelotas, Brazil: The Equivocal Quality of Conduct Disorder and Related Diagnoses by Behague, Dominique

“…The world-wide emergence of categories for diagnosing mental health problems in children and youth such as conduct disorder is often attributed to the…”
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Risk of psychological distress following severe obstetric complications in Benin: the role of economics, physical health and spousal abuse by Fottrell, Edward, Kanhonou, Lydie, Goufodji, Sourou, Béhague, Dominique P., Marshall, Tom, Patel, Vikram, Filippi, Véronique

“…Little is known about the impact of life-threatening obstetric complications ('near miss') on women's mental health in low- and middle-income countries. To…”
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Pierre Bourdieu and transformative agency: a study of how patients in Benin negotiate blame and accountability in the context of severe obstetric events by Béhague, Dominique P., Kanhonou, Lydie G., Filippi, Véronique, Lègonou, Solange, Ronsmans, Carine

“…This paper explores the social and institutional processes that constrain and enable obstetric patients in Benin to critically evaluate quality of healthcare…”
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Consumer demand for caesarean sections in Brazil: informed decision making, patient choice, or social inequality? A population based birth cohort study linking ethnographic and epidemiological methods by Béhague, Dominique P, Victora, Cesar G, Barros, Fernando C

“…Abstract Objectives: To investigate why some women prefer caesarean sections and how decisions to medicalise birthing are influenced by patients, doctors, and…”
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Exploring multiple trajectories of causality: collaboration between Anthropology and Epidemiology in the 1982 birth cohort, Pelotas, Southern Brazil by Behague, D P, Goncalves, H

“…Although the relationship between epidemiology and anthropology has a long history, it has generally been comprised of the integration of quantitative and…”
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Contraceptive medicalisation, fear of infertility and teenage pregnancy in Brazil by Gonçalves, Helen, Souza, Ana D., Tavares, Patrícia A., Cruz, Suélen H., Béhague, Dominique P.

“…In Brazil, as in many other countries, teenage pregnancy is widely recognised as a public health problem. Buttressed by a public health science of the…”
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