Medicalizing Ethnicity : The Construction of Latino Identity in a Psychiatric Setting /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Santiago-Irizarry, Vilma
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Kulturkonflikt
Psychiatrie
Gesundheitswesen
Psychiatry, Transcultural.
Hispanic Americans > Mental health services.
Ethnopsychology.
Cultural pluralism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Diversite culturelle.
Ethnopsychologie > New York (État) > New York.
Ethnopsychiatrie > New York (État) > New York.
Americains d'origine latino-americaine > Services de sante mentale > New York (État) > New York.
Mental Disorders > ethnology
Ethnopsychology
Cultural Diversity
Mental Health Services > organization & administration
Hispanic or Latino > psychology
Ethnopsychology > New York (State) > New York.
Psychiatry, Transcultural > New York (State) > New York.
Hispanic Americans > Mental health services > New York (State) > New York.
Hispanos.
USA
New York (State) > New York.
New York (State)
New York
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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