| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 197 pages :) : illustrations. |
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text file PDF |
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Medical anthropology: health, inequality, and social justice
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD / Manderson, Lenore -- NOTE ON TEXT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. COLONIALITY, LA ZONA DEL ESTAR, AND YUCATAN'S MAYA HERITAGE -- 3. MAKING THE MATRIX -- 4. MODERNITY -- 5. NEGOTIATING TRUTH IN THE PSYCHIATRIC ENCOUNTER -- 6. IN THE HEART OF MADNESS -- 7. EPILOGUE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Summary |
Psychiatric Encounters presents an intimate portrait of a public inpatient psychiatric facility in the Southeastern state of Yucatan, Mexico. The book explores the experiences of patients and psychiatrists as they navigate the challenges of public psychiatric care in Mexico. While international reports condemning conditions in Mexican psychiatric institutions abound, Psychiatric Encounters considers the large- and small-scale obstacles to quality care encountered by doctors and patients alike as they struggle to live and act like human beings under inhumane conditions. Beatriz Mireya Reyes-Foster closely examines the impact of the Mexican state's neoliberal health reforms on how patients access care and doctors perform their duties. Engaging with madness, modernity, and identity, Psychiatric Encounters considers the enduring role of colonialism in the context of Mexico's troubled contemporary mental health care institutions. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
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Mayas -- Psychology.
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Mayas -- Psychology. |
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Mayas. |
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Mayas -- Mental health.
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Mental health. |
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Mental health services -- Mexico.
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Mental health services. |
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Mexico. |
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Mental health -- Social aspects -- Mexico.
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Mental health -- Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Project Muse.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780813594866 0813594863 9780813594859 0813594855 (DLC) 2018005952 (OCoLC)1027830409 |
| ISBN |
0813594898 |
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9780813594897 (electronic book) |
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9780813594866 cloth |
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9780813594859 paperback |
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9780813594873 |
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0813594863 |
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0813594855 |
| Standard No. |
10.36019/9780813594897 |
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