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Medicalizing ethnicity : the construction of Latino identity in a psychiatric setting /

In Medicalizing Ethnicity, Vilma Santiago-Irizarry shows how commendable intentions can produce unintended consequences. Santiago-Irizarry conducted ethnographic fieldwork in three bilingual, bicultural psychiatric programs for Latino patients at public mental health facilities in New York City. The...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Santiago-Irizarry, Vilma
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2001.
Colección:Anthropology of contemporary issues.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. "It sounds like Hispanics stereotyping other Hispanics!"
  • 2. Negotiating Ethnicity
  • 3. Clinical Topographies
  • 4. The "Mother Tongue" and the "Hispanic Character"
  • 5. Occasions of Treatment
  • Conclusion: Medicalizing Ethnicity.