Medicalizing Ethnicity The Construction of Latino Identity in a Psychiatric Setting

Name: Medicalizing Ethnicity The Construction of Latino Identity in a Psychiatric Setting
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ISBN: 9780801487521

ISBN-10: 0801487528

ISBN-13: 9780801487521

Edition: 2001

Authors: Vilma Santiago-Irizarry

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The author shows that by stressing Latino differences in the setting of mental health facilities in New York City, the mental health profession actually disempowers patients. She challenges commonly-held definitions of Latino culture.

Book details

List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 8/2/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



"It sounds like Hispanics stereotyping other Hispanics!"



Negotiating Ethnicity



Clinical Topographies



The "Mother Tongue" and the "Hispanic Character"



Occasions of Treatment


Conclusion: Medicalizing Ethnicity


Notes


References


Index