Psychiatric Encounters
Madness and Modernity in Yucatan, Mexico
Seiten
2018
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9486-6 (ISBN)
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9486-6 (ISBN)
Presents an intimate portrait of a public inpatient psychiatric facility in the Southeastern state of Yucatan, Mexico. 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.
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.
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.
Beatriz Mireya Reyes-Foster is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Text
Foreword
1 Introduction: Las Lomas at the Threshold of Modernity
2 Coloniality, La Zona del Estar, and Yucatan’s Maya Heritage
3 Making the Matrix
4 Modernity: Problem and Promise of Mexican Psychiatry
5 Psychiatric Encounters
6 In the Heart of Madness
7 Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Erscheinungsdatum | 02.10.2018 |
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Zusatzinfo | 6 b-w images |
Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Studium | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8135-9486-3 / 0813594863 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8135-9486-6 / 9780813594866 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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