Abstract

GALARZA, Bárbara  and  GRAVANO, Ariel. Salud mental y sistema urbano en una localidad de rango medio. Avá [online]. 2012, n.21. ISSN 1851-1694.

The intention of this work is to analyze the specific and particular relations between the public system of a mental health service and the institutional urban system that contains it, in an average range town of Buenos Aires province, as a contradictory joint between the structure of the capitalist urbanization and the public services. Both systems and its relations are analytically approached through the explicit manifestations of the social actors involved and the structural underlying processes. From the theoretical contributions of Medical Anthropology and Urban Anthropology, processes such as the "psychiatrization of social matters", are investigated as being associated with biological medicalization, and the spatial and organizational segregation of the public device of attention of mental health. Its concealments and contradictions result in agreement with the hypothesis of an isomorphism of the specific processes of the health system and the urban system in the intermediate city on the base of the homeostatic biologistic ideological model that conceives both the process of "healing" mental illness and the generation of its spatial and organizational segregation. Finally, critical clues are generated and established from inside the system itself and the analysis of the case.

Keywords : Intermediate City; Urban Segregation; Mental Health.

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