La Castañeda Insane Asylum Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico / Cristina Rivera Garza ; translated by Laura Kanost.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Series: Sustainable history monograph pilotPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press, Manufacturer: Project MUSE, Description: 1 online resource (1 online resource.)ISBN: 9780806168531Uniform titles: Castañeda. English Subject(s): 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 -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History -- 20th century -- Sources | Mexico -- Mexico CityGenre/Form: Sources | Interviews | History | Electronic books. Online resources: Full text available: | Item type | Current library | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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"-- Provided by publisher.
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