La Castañeda Insane Asylum : Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico /
"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"--
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| Language: | English Spanish |
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Norman :
University of Oklahoma Press,
[2020]
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Table of 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.