Madhouse Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History / Jennifer L. Lambe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lambe, Jennifer L., author.

Series:

Envisioning Cuba.

Envisioning Cuba

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatry--Political aspects--Cuba.

Psychiatry.

Psychiatry--Cuba--History.

Psychiatric hospitals--Cuba--Mazorra--History.

Psychiatric hospitals.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages).

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

Summary:

On the outskirts of Havana lies Mazorra, an asylum known to - and at times feared by - ordinary Cubans for over a century. Since its founding in 1857, the island's first psychiatric hospital has been an object of persistent political attention. Drawing on hospital documents and government records, as well as the popular press, photographs and oral histories, Jennifer L. Lambe charts the connections between the inner workings of this notorious institution and the highest echelons of Cuban politics.

Contents:

A moral revolution at Mazorra, 1899-1902

Fragments of a journey to Mazorra: from a "state of ruin" to a second occupation, 1902-1909

The great divergence: psychiatry, race, and the age of the inferno, 1909-1933

The plague of politiquería: corruption and the experts, 1934-1958

Banishing the inferno: from Mazorra to Hospital Psiquiátrico de La Habana

The world the Revolution made: political process and mental transformation

The repeating madhouse, from Havana to Miami.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908511-7-8

979-88-908511-8-5

1-4696-3103-2

1-4696-3104-0

OCLC:

968723280