Madhouse : psychiatry and politics in Cuban history /

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"On the outskirts of Havana lies Mazorra, an asylum known to--and at times feared by--ordinary Cubans for over a century. Since its founding in 1857, the island's first psychiatric hospital has been an object of persistent political attention. Drawing on hospital documents and government r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lambe, Jennifer L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Colección:Envisioning Cuba.
Temas:
Psychiatric hospitals > Cuba > Mazorra > History.
Psychiatry > Cuba > History.
Psychiatry > Political aspects > Cuba.
Psychiatric hospitals
Psychiatry
Psychiatry > Political aspects
Cuba
Cuba > Mazorra
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A moral revolution at Mazorra, 1899-1902
  • Fragments of a journey to Mazorra: from a "state of ruin" to a second occupation, 1902-1909
  • The great divergence: psychiatry, race, and the age of the inferno, 1909-1933
  • The plague of politiquería: corruption and the experts, 1934-1958
  • Banishing the inferno: from Mazorra to Hospital Psiquiátrico de La Habana
  • The world the Revolution made: political process and mental transformation
  • The repeating madhouse, from Havana to Miami.

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