Beatriz M Reyes-Foster

Psychiatric Encounters

Madness and Modernity in Yucatan, Mexico

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780813594866
• ISBN-10: 0813594863
• Artikelnr.: 51494784

Autorenporträt

Reyes-Foster, Beatriz M.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Text
Foreword
1          Introduction: Las Lomas at the Threshold of Modernity
2          Coloniality, La Zona del Estar, and Yucatan's Maya Heritage
3          Making the Matrix
4          Modernity: Problem and Promise of Mexican Psychiatry
5          Psychiatric Encounters
6          In the Heart of Madness
7          Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author