Madness in Buenos Aires: Patients, Psychiatrists and the Argentine State, 1880-1983

by JonathanAblard (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $62.33

  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 to modernity and social change during the twentieth century, while also examining the often contentious place of psychiatry in modern Argentina.