Disability and medical inspection: the outline of the body - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v3i2.264en

This article analyses how biomedicine evaluates the disabled body in determining the inclusion of a person with disabilities in Brazilian social protection system. An empirical research was conducted with 58 people who tried to have access to Continuous Cash Benefit Program (BPC), a social protectio...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wederson Rufino Santos, Debora Diniz, Natália Pereira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde (Icict) da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) 2009-06-01
Series:RECIIS
Subjects:
Online Access:http://www.reciis.cict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/264/296