Medicalizing Ethnicity : : The Construction of Latino Identity in a Psychiatric Setting / / Vilma Santiago-Irizarry.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 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
- Notes
- References
- Index