Medicalizing ethnicity : the construction of Latino identity in a psychiatric setting /

Medicalizing ethnicity : the construction of Latino identity in a psychiatric setting /

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Author / Creator:	Santiago-Irizarry, Vilma.
Imprint:	Ithaca [NY] : Cornell University Press, 2001.
Description:	xi, 178 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The anthropology of contemporary issues Anthropology of contemporary issues.
Subject:	Hispanic Americans -- Mental health services -- New York (State) -- New York (City) Psychiatry, Transcultural -- New York (State) -- New York (City) Ethnopsychology -- New York (State) -- New York (City) Medicalization Ethnopsychology. Hispanic Americans -- Mental health services. Psychiatry, Transcultural. New York (State) -- New York.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4494284

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ISBN:	0801438217 (cloth) 0801487528 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-174) and index.

Table of Contents:

1. "It sounds like Hispanics stereotyping other Hispanics!"
2. Negotiating Ethnicity
3. Clinical Topographies
4. The "Mother Tongue" and the "Hispanic Character"
5. Occasions of Treatment
Conclusion: Medicalizing Ethnicity.