Madhouse : psychiatry and politics in Cuban history / Jennifer L. Lambe.

  • Lambe, Jennifer L.
Date:
[2017]
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Publication/Creation

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

Physical description

xiv, 325 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

A moral revolution at Mazorra, 1899-1902 -- Fragments of a journey to Mazorra: from a "state of ruin" to a second occupation, 1902-1909 -- The great divergence: psychiatry, race, and the age of the inferno, 1909-1933 -- The plague of politiquería: corruption and the experts, 1934-1958 -- Banishing the inferno: from Mazorra to Hospital Psiquiátrico de La Habana -- The world the Revolution made: political process and mental transformation -- The repeating madhouse, from Havana to Miami.

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    History of Medicine
    PP.T.72
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ISBN

  • 9781469631011
  • 1469631016
  • 9781469631028
  • 1469631024