[PDF.58ya] Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History (Envisioning Cuba)

Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History (Envisioning Cuba)

[PDF.mb62] Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History (Envisioning Cuba)

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 | #341258 in Books |  2017-02-06 |  2017-02-06 | Original language:English |  9.25 x.86 x6.13l, | File type: PDF | 344 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A madhouse in the truest sense.|By octavio ramos|Jenny Lambe is a first-rate Cuban historian and does a superb job detailing the complex and oftentimes inhuman history of a little know Cuban institution known simply as Mazorra. A mental health facility that doubled as a politically motivated and corrupt repository for the out of favor or the unforgiven. Dr. Lambe surfaces the| |Madhouse is a great study of one of the most important psychiatric institutions in the Americas. It is not only beautifully written in lively prose, but it displays depth of knowledge in medicine and science studies and great familiarity with all domain

On the outskirts of Havana lies Mazorra, an asylum known to--and at times feared by--ordinary Cubans for over a century. Since its founding in 1857, the island's first psychiatric hospital has been an object of persistent political attention. Drawing on hospital documents and government records, as well as the popular press, photographs, and oral histories, Jennifer L. Lambe charts the connections between the inner workings of this notorious institution and the highest e...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History (Envisioning Cuba)   |  Jennifer L. Lambe. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.

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