This article offers an ethnographic comparison of two genres of waiting for healthcare in Northeast Brazil in order to explain the persistence of patron-client practices at a time when people otherwise reject patronage. The explanation turns on a recasting of patronage as a form of sovereignty whereby politicians and afflicted persons may choose to suspend the emerging rights-based care regime in favour of older patronage-based approaches to care. Motivating such decisions is the afflicted person's experience of the wait for rights-based healthcare as a form of ‘bare life’, an experience they hope to escape.

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等待的类型：巴西东北部的赞助、医疗保健和二元主权

本文对巴西东北部等待医疗保健的两种类型进行了人种学比较，以解释在人们拒绝赞助的时候顾客-客户实践的持续存在。解释转向将赞助重铸为一种主权形式，政治家和受灾者可以选择暂停新兴的基于权利的护理制度，转而采用基于赞助的旧护理方法。促使这种决定的是受苦者将等待基于权利的医疗保健作为一种“赤裸裸的生活”的经历，这是他们希望逃避的经历。