Psychiatric Encounters : Madness and Modernity in Yucatan, Mexico /

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Author / Creator:	Reyes-Foster, Beatriz M., author.
Imprint:	New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2018] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 197 pages :) illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Medical anthropology: health, inequality, and social justice Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject:	Mayas -- Psychology. Mayas -- Mental health. Mental health services -- Mexico. Mental health -- Social aspects -- Mexico. Mayas -- Psychology. Mental health services. Mental health -- Social aspects. Mexico. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12021724

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Other authors / contributors:	Project Muse.
ISBN:	0813594898 9780813594897 9780813594866 (cloth) 9780813594859 (pbk.) 9780813594873 0813594863 0813594855
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. In English. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	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 reports condemning conditions in Mexican psychiatric institutions abound, Psychiatric Encounters considers the large- and small-scale obstacles to quality care encountered by doctors and patients alike as they struggle to live and act like human beings under inhumane conditions. Beatriz Mireya Reyes-Foster closely examines the impact of the Mexican state's neoliberal health reforms on how patients access care and doctors perform their duties. Engaging with madness, modernity, and identity, Psychiatric Encounters considers the enduring role of colonialism in the context of Mexico's troubled contemporary mental health care institutions.
Other form:	Print version: 9780813594866 0813594863 9780813594859 0813594855
Standard no.:	10.36019/9780813594897

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