La Castañeda Insane Asylum : Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico

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La Castañeda Insane Asylum Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico

"An inside view of the workings of La Castañeda General Insane Asylum-a public mental health institution founded in Mexico City in 1910 only months before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores:	Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964- author (author)
Formato:	Libro electrónico
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Norman : University of Oklahoma Press 2020 [2020]
Colección:	Sustainable history monograph pilot
Materias:	Manicomio General La Castañeda (Mexico City, Mexico) Manicomio General La Castañeda (Mexico City, Mexico) > History > 20th century > Sources. Psychiatric hospital care Mentally ill > Institutional care Mentally ill Mentally ill > Mexico > Mexico City > Interviews. Mentally ill > Institutional care > Mexico > Mexico City. Psychiatric hospital care > Mexico > Mexico City > History > 20th century > Sources. Mexico > Mexico City history of the Americas general & world history psychiatry public health and preventive medicine fiction: general and literary Sources Interviews History
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:	https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009424514906719

Tabla de Contenidos:

Introduction: Words in a Title
La Castañeda General Insane Asylum, 1884-1930
Entryway: A Mental Health Routine
The Psychiatric Interview: The Fox and the Goose
Through My Narrative Was I Born, My Narrative Sustains Me: Women Authoring Selves
Looking Insane
The Pain of Becoming Modern: Suffering and Redemption in the Medical Histories of La Castañeda
Con-juring the Body: Making History and Fiction.