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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2001.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.


