Psychiatric Encounters Madness and Modernity in Yucatan, Mexico /

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 repo...

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Bibliografske podrobnosti
Glavni avtor: Reyes-Foster, Beatriz M. (Author)
Korporativna značnica: Project Muse
Format: Licensed eBooks
Jezik:angleščina
Izdano: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Serija:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Online dostop:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvscxr9q
Kazalo:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD / Manderson, Lenore
  • NOTE ON TEXT
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2. COLONIALITY, LA ZONA DEL ESTAR, AND YUCATAN'S MAYA HERITAGE
  • 3. MAKING THE MATRIX
  • 4. MODERNITY
  • 5. NEGOTIATING TRUTH IN THE PSYCHIATRIC ENCOUNTER
  • 6. IN THE HEART OF MADNESS
  • 7. EPILOGUE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR