TY  - GEN
T1  - Psychiatric Encounters Madness and Modernity in Yucatan, Mexico
T2  - Book collections on Project MUSE.
A1  - Reyes-Foster, Beatriz M.
LA  - English
PP  - New Brunswick
PB  - Rutgers University Press
YR  - 2018
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1080550833
AB  - Psychiatric Encounters presents an intimate portrait of a public inpatient psychiatric facility in the Southeastern state of Yucatan, Mexico. The book explores the experiences of patients and psychiatrists as they navigate the challenges of public psychiatric care in Mexico. While international reports condemning conditions in Mexican psychiatric institutions abound, Psychiatric Encounters considers the large- and small-scale obstacles to quality care encountered by doctors and patients alike as they struggle to live and act like human beings under inhumane conditions. Beatriz Mireya Reyes-Foster closely examines the impact of the Mexican state's neoliberal health reforms on how patients access care and doctors perform their duties. Engaging with madness, modernity, and identity, Psychiatric Encounters considers the enduring role of colonialism in the context of Mexico's troubled contemporary mental health care institutions.
OP  - 197
CN  - RA790.7.M6 R49 2018
SN  - 0813594898
SN  - 9780813594897
SN  - 9780813594866 (cloth)
SN  - 9780813594859 (pbk.)
SN  - 9780813594873
SN  - 0813594863
SN  - 0813594855
SN  - 9780813594866
SN  - 9780813594859
KW  - Mayas : Psychology.
KW  - Mayas : Mental health.
KW  - Mental health services : Mexico.
KW  - Mental health : Social aspects : Mexico.
KW  - Mayas : Psychologie.
KW  - Mayas : Santé mentale.
KW  - Services de santé mentale : Mexique.
KW  - Santé mentale : Aspect social : Mexique.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
KW  - Mayas : Psychology
KW  - Mental health services
KW  - Mental health : Social aspects
KW  - Mexico
ER  -