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Madness in Buenos Aires : patients, psychiatrists, and the Argentine state, 1880-1983
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Madness in Buenos Aires : patients, psychiatrists, and the Argentine state, 1880-1983

Author: Jonathan Ablard
Publisher: Calgary, Alta. : University of Calgary Press ; Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2008.
Series: Latin American and Caribbean series, 5.; Research in international studies., Latin America series ;, no. 47
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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Examines the interactions between psychiatrists, patients and their families, and the national state in modern Argentina. This book offers a fresh interpretation of the Argentine state's relationship  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jonathan Ablard
ISBN: 9781552382332 1552382338 9780896802599 0896802590
OCLC Number: 191889831
Description: xi, 319 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction; Foundations, Myths, and Institutions; Innovation and Crisis; Ambiguous Spaces: Law, Medicines Psychiatry, and the Hospitals, 1900-1946; Pathways to the Asylum: 1900-1946; From Peron to the Proceso: Authoritarianism, Democracy, and Psychiatric Reform, 1943-83; Conclusion: Social Control in a Weak State; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Series Title: Latin American and Caribbean series, 5.; Research in international studies., Latin America series ;, no. 47
Responsibility: Jonathan D. Ablard.

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