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La Castañeda Insane Asylum Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico / Cristina Rivera Garza ; translated by Laura Kanost.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964- author.
- Series:
- Sustainable history monograph pilot
- Standardized Title:
- Castañeda. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Manicomio General La Castañeda (Mexico City, Mexico).
- Manicomio General La Castañeda (Mexico City, Mexico)--History--20th century--Sources.
- Psychiatric hospital care.
- Mentally ill--Institutional care.
- Mentally ill.
- Mentally ill--Mexico--Mexico City--Interviews.
- Mentally ill--Institutional care--Mexico--Mexico City.
- Psychiatric hospital care--Mexico--Mexico City--History--20th century--Sources.
- Mexico--Mexico City.
- Mexico.
- Genre:
- Sources
- Interviews
- History
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource.)
- Place of Publication:
- 2020
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "An inside view of the workings of La Castañeda General Insane Asylum-a public mental health institution founded in Mexico City in 1910 only months before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Words in a Title
- La Castañeda General Insane Asylum, 1884-1930
- Entryway: A Mental Health Routine
- The Psychiatric Interview: The Fox and the Goose
- Through My Narrative Was I Born, My Narrative Sustains Me: Women Authoring Selves
- Looking Insane
- The Pain of Becoming Modern: Suffering and Redemption in the Medical Histories of La Castañeda
- Con-juring the Body: Making History and Fiction.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8061-6723-8
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