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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Autor principal: Reyes-Foster, Beatriz M. (Autor)
Autor corporatiu: Project Muse
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Col·lecció:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvscxr9q
Taula de continguts:
  • 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