{"product_id":"psychiatric-encounters-madness-and-modernity-in-yucatan-mexico-paperback-softback-9780813594859","title":"Psychiatric Encounters; Madness and Modernity in Yucatan, Mexico (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813594859","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePsychiatric Encounters\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMadness and Modernity in Yucatan, Mexico\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBeatriz M. Reyes-Foster (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813594859\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 October 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e216 pages, 6 b-w images\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.284 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“This ethnography of a single psychiatric hospital broadens into a trenchant critique of the persistence of colonial structures in the Mexican state and the psyche of its citizens. Reyes-Foster analyzes intimate clinical encounters through a double optic: Mexico’s neoliberal political economy and its ambivalent modernization. The book is ultimately a tragic story of how subjective, institutional and national fractures all mirror each other. But its intellectual breadth–from Fanon to Foucault to contemporary indigenous anthropology–charts a new course for the cultural study of psychiatry.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Paul E. Brodwin (author of Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Lines of Community Psychiatry) \u003cdiv\u003e“A bold and original study of a mental asylum in Mexico. Theoretically innovative and ethnographically rich, Reyes-Foster links discourses and experiences of coloniality, madness and modernity in creative, important ways.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Angela Garcia (author of The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Recommended.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Choice) \u003cdiv\u003e\"A welcome intervention to psychiatric anthropology as well as to the field of global mental health.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Medical Anthropology Quarterly) \u003cdiv\u003e\"The clear strength of \u003ci\u003ePsychiatric Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e lies in its complex yet compelling account of how relations of power shaping contemporary psychiatric practice are products of Mexico's troublesome histories of coloniality and neoliberal modernity.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (American Anthropologist)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003ePsychiatric Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e presents an intimate portrait of a public inpatient psychiatric facility in the Southeastern state of Yucatan, Mexico. The book explores the experiences of patients and psychiatrists as they navigate the challenges of public psychiatric care in Mexico. While international reports condemning conditions in Mexican psychiatric institutions abound, \u003ci\u003ePsychiatric Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e considers the large- and small-scale obstacles to quality care encountered by doctors and patients alike as they struggle to live and act like human beings under inhumane conditions. Beatriz Mireya Reyes-Foster closely examines the impact of the Mexican state’s neoliberal health reforms on how patients access care and doctors perform their duties. Engaging with madness, modernity, and identity, \u003ci\u003ePsychiatric Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e considers the enduring role of colonialism in the context of Mexico's troubled contemporary mental health care institutions.  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Note on Text\u003cbr\u003e Foreword\u003cbr\u003e 1          Introduction: Las Lomas at the Threshold of Modernity\u003cbr\u003e 2          Coloniality, \u003ci\u003eLa Zona del Estar,\u003c\/i\u003e and Yucatan’\u003cbr\u003es Maya Heritage\u003cbr\u003e 3          Making the Matrix\u003cbr\u003e 4          Modernity: Problem and Promise of Mexican Psychiatry\u003cbr\u003e 5          Psychiatric Encounters\u003cbr\u003e 6          In the Heart of Madness\u003cbr\u003e 7          Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e About the Author\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563728597272,"sku":"9780813594859","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/psychiatric-encounters-madness-and-modernity-in-yucatan-mexico-paperback-softback-9780813594859","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}