La Castañeda Insane Asylum : Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico / / Cristina Rivera Garza ; translated by Laura Kanost

• Autore: Rivera Garza Cristina <1964->
• Pubblicazione: 2020; Norman : , : University of Oklahoma Press, , [2020]; ©[2020]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource.)
• Disciplina: 362.2/1097253
• Soggetto topico: Psychiatric hospital care; Mentally ill - Institutional care; Mentally ill; Mentally ill - Mexico - Mexico City; Mentally ill - Institutional care - Mexico - Mexico City; Psychiatric hospital care - Mexico - Mexico City - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Mexico Mexico City
• Soggetto genere / forma: Sources; Interviews; History
• Soggetto non controllato: history of the Americas; general & world history; psychiatry; public health and preventive medicine; fiction: general and literary
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: La Castañeda Insane Asylum
• ISBN: 0-8061-6723-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910476830803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II