Psychiatric encounters : madness and modernity in Yucatan, Mexico
- Title
- Psychiatric encounters : madness and modernity in Yucatan, Mexico / Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster.
- Published by
- New Brunswick [New Jersey] : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 197 pages; 24 cm.
- 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"--Publisher description.
- Series statement
- Medical anthropology: health, inequality, and social justice
- Uniform title
- Medical anthropology (New Brunswick, N.J.)
- Alternative title
- Madness and modernity in Yucatan, Mexico
- Subject
- Mental health > Social aspects > Mexico
- Mental health services > Mexico
- Mayas > Mental health
- Mayas > Psychology
- Mental health services
- Social change
- Mental Health Services
- Health Services, Indigenous
- Indians, North American > psychology
- Social Change
- Social change
- Mayas > Psychology
- Mental health services
- Mental health > Social aspects
- Santé mentale > Aspect social > Mexique
- Services de santé > Mexique
- Mexico > ethnology
- Mexico
- Contents
- Foreword / by Lenore Manderson -- 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. Negotiating truth in the psychiatric encounters --6. In the heart of madness -- 7. Epilogue.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.