03057nam 2200625Ia 450 991045934340332120200520144314.01-282-66086-197866126608630-520-94782-710.1525/9780520947825(CKB)2670000000034665(EBL)566747(OCoLC)680281918(SSID)ssj0000424926(PQKBManifestationID)11294638(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000424926(PQKBWorkID)10475239(PQKB)10100423(MiAaPQ)EBC566747(DE-B1597)519009(DE-B1597)9780520947825(Au-PeEL)EBL566747(CaPaEBR)ebr10402708(CaONFJC)MIL266086(EXLCZ)99267000000003466520100129d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe pastoral clinic[electronic resource] addiction and dispossession along the Rio Grande /Angela GarciaBerkeley University of California Pressc20101 online resource (265 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-26208-5 0-520-25829-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE. Graveyard -- TWO. The Elegiac Addict -- THREE. Blood Relative -- FOUR. Suicide as a Form of Life -- FIVE. Experiments with Care -- CONCLUSION. A New Season -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexThe Pastoral Clinic takes us on a penetrating journey into an iconic Western landscape-northern New Mexico's Española Valley, home to the highest rate of heroin addiction and fatal overdoses in the United States. In a luminous narrative, Angela Garcia chronicles the lives of several Hispano addicts, introducing us to the intimate, physical, and institutional dependencies in which they are entangled. We discover how history pervades this region that has endured centuries of material and cultural dispossession, and we come to see its heroin problem as a contemporary expression of these conditions, as well as a manifestation of the human desire to be released from them. Lyrically evoking the Española Valley and its residents through conversations, encounters, and recollections, The Pastoral Clinic is at once a devastating portrait of addiction, a rich ethnography of place, and an eloquent call for a new ethics of care.Heroin abuseNew MexicoDrug addictsNew MexicoElectronic books.Heroin abuseDrug addicts362.29/3092368078952Garcia Angela1971-1041158MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459343403321The pastoral clinic2464495UNINA