The Judicialization of the Right to Health in Brazil: Enacting Magical Legalism and Prospecting Biopolitical Futurity

Event time: 
Thursday, February 28, 2019 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
William L. Harkness Hall (WLH ), Sudler Hall See map
100 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Join us for a talk with João Biehl, Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Associate of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University; Co-director of the Global Health Program and of the Brazil LAB (Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies).

This talk, which is part of the Health Justice Speaker Series, will explore grassroots mobilizations for the right-to-health and for state accountability in Brazil, against the backdrop of an expanding pharmaceuticalization of care. Contrary to notions of ‘the end of human rights,’ patients and legal activists are litigating for access to medicines and are rallying for effective infrastructures. As people enact ‘magical legalism’ and affirm an otherwise, they create the conditions of biopolitical futurity.

The event is organized by the Yale Global Health Studies Program and Yale Global Health Justice Partnership and co-sponsored by the Yale Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies; Yale Anthropology Department; Schell Center for International Human Rights; YSPH Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences; Yale Sociology Department; Solomon Center for Health Law & Policy. It is funded in part by the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund at Yale Law School.

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