The pastoral clinic : addiction and dispossession along the Rio Grande / Angela Garcia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garcia, Angela, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heroin abuse--New Mexico.

Heroin abuse.

Drug addicts--New Mexico.

Drug addicts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Pastoral Clinic takes us on a penetrating journey into an iconic Western landscape-northern New Mexico's Española Valley, home to the highest rate of heroin addiction and fatal overdoses in the United States. In a luminous narrative, Angela Garcia chronicles the lives of several Hispano addicts, introducing us to the intimate, physical, and institutional dependencies in which they are entangled. We discover how history pervades this region that has endured centuries of material and cultural dispossession, and we come to see its heroin problem as a contemporary expression of these conditions, as well as a manifestation of the human desire to be released from them. Lyrically evoking the Española Valley and its residents through conversations, encounters, and recollections, The Pastoral Clinic is at once a devastating portrait of addiction, a rich ethnography of place, and an eloquent call for a new ethics of care.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

ONE. Graveyard

TWO. The Elegiac Addict

THREE. Blood Relative

FOUR. Suicide as a Form of Life

FIVE. Experiments with Care

CONCLUSION. A New Season

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612660863

9781282660861

1282660861

9780520947825

0520947827

OCLC:

680281918