Latin American Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Bioethics and Disabilities

Part I: SUBJECTS WITH INTELLECTUAL AND PSYCHOSOCIAL DISABILITIES.- Chapter 1. Empathizing with the Intellectually Disabled.- Chapter 2. Experts by Experience, Demedicalization and the Emergence of Alternative Approaches to Mental Health Care: Gaining Autonomy & Medication Management (GAM) in Brazil.- Chapter 3. Practice, Human Flourishing and Centres for Psychosocial Attention: A MacIntyrean Analysis from Both the User's and the Community's Standpoints.- Chapter 4. The Phenomenological Model as a Basis for the Inclusion of People with Intellectual Disabilities and Psychosocial Impact.- Part II: MORAL AND LEGAL AGENCY.- Chapter 5. Argentina's Mental Health Law: Sociocultural Questions regarding the Normative Framework.- Chapter 6. Legislation and Practices of Psychiatric Institutionalization in Brazil: A Foucauldian Interpretation of Barbacena's Holocaust.- Chapter 7. "Nootropics in the Era of Affective Capitalism: Drug Consumption and Discourse Effects".- Chapter 8. The Body in OCemitério dos Vivos by Lima Barreto: An Aesthetic Phenomenological Reflection on the Practice of Norms.- Chapter 9. The Rights of Children with Psychosocial Disabilities and the Prescription of Antipsychotics in Childhood.- Chapter 10. "So that in the practice of good manners, she will find a dignified and happy life": Institutional Practices towards Incarcerated Women (Brazil, 1930s).

Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann: She is Professor of Legal Theory (full-time, with tenure) at the National Law School (FND) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She is Professor of the Graduate Program in Law. She holds a PhD in Philosophy (2022) from the Graduate Program in Philosophy of UFRJ, one PhD (2007) and two Post-PhDs in Law (2009 and 2013) from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. She has a Masters in Public Law (2001) and a Bachelor of Law (1995) from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). She was Visiting Professor of Constitutional Law at the Law School of UERJ (2011-2013). She was Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (2008-2010) and Research Assistant at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, at the Institute of State Law, Constitutional Theory and Philosophy of Law (2006-2008). She is Visiting Professor of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. She is the coordinator of theResearch Group on Theory of Human Rights (NTDH). She is a member of the Permanent Commission to Support People with Disabilities at FND / UFRJ. She currently works in the areas of Theory and Philosophy of Law, Human Rights, Law and Literature. Her field of research is interdisciplinary and has been focusing on the relation between Law, Philosophy and the Arts. Her research interests include disability, phenomenological body and the arts; disability and inclusion; cognitive and psychosocial disabilities; disability and non-human animals. She authored: Costa Barbosa, A.P. (2008). Die Menschenwürde im deutschen Grundgesetz und in der brasilianischen Verfassung von 1988. Ein Rechtsvergleich. Münster-Berlin: LIT. She coauthored: Barbosa-Fohrmann, A.P., Barreto, G.A.F. (2017). Are Human Beings with Extreme Mental Disabilities and Animals Comparable? An Account of Personality. In Legal Personhood: Animals, Artificial Intelligence and the Unborn, eds. Visa A.J. Kurki and Tomasz Pietrzykowski,