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La Castañeda Insane Asylum Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico / Cristina Rivera Garza ; translated by Laura Kanost.

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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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