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La Castañeda Insane Asylum

Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964-

La Castañeda Insane Asylum Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico / Cristina Rivera Garza ; translated by Laura Kanost. - 1 online resource (1 online resource.) - Sustainable history monograph pilot . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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.

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"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"--

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Manicomio General La Castañeda (Mexico City, Mexico)
Manicomio General La Castañeda (Mexico City, Mexico)--History--20th century--Sources.


Psychiatric hospital care
Mentally ill--Institutional care
Mentally ill
Mentally ill--Mexico--Mexico City--Interviews.
Mentally ill--Institutional care--Mexico--Mexico City.
Psychiatric hospital care--History--Mexico--Mexico City--20th century--Sources.


Mexico--Mexico City


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