Psychiatric encounters : madness and modernity in Yucatan, Mexico /
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| Author / Creator: | Reyes-Foster, Beatriz M., author. |
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| Imprint: | New Brunswick [New Jersey] : Rutgers University Press, [2019] ©2019 |
| Description: | xiii, 197 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Medical anthropology: health, inequality, and social justice Medical anthropology (New Brunswick, N.J.) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11721508 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Lenore Manderson
- 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. Negotiating truth in the psychiatric encounters
- 6. In the heart of madness
- 7. Epilogue.
