La Castañeda Insane Asylum Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico
- Author/Creator:
- Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964- author
- Publication/Creation:
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2020]
- Resource Type:
- Book
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Additional/Related Title Information
- Full Title:
- La Castañeda Insane Asylum Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico / Cristina Rivera Garza ; translated by Laura Kanost
- Uniform Title:
- Castañeda.
- Series Titles:
- Sustainable history monograph pilot
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Manicomio General La Castañeda (Mexico City, Mexico)--History--20th century--Sources
Mentally ill--Mexico--Mexico City--Interviews
Mentally ill--Institutional care--Mexico--Mexico City
Psychiatric hospital care--Mexico--Mexico City--History--20th century--Sources
Description/Summary
- 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.
- Summary:
- "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"--
- Language:
- English
- Language Note:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource.)
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9937314983802486
- ISBN:
- 0-8061-6723-8
- OCLC Number:
- 1151807486
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