Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rodrirguez, Julia

Titel

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

Ist Teil von

• Journal of Social History, 2010, Vol.44 (1), p.292-294

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: George Mason University

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Quelle

Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• According to Ablard, "involuntary psychiatric hospitalization in Argentina was governed more by the whims and vagaries of a poorly funded medico-legal bureaucracy than by an efficient state apparatus." A particular strength of Madness in Buenos Aires are the multiple perspectives that emerge from the at-times heart wrenching narratives from inside the asylums, in which not only patients and their families but well-meaning doctors suffered tragic setbacks. [...] Ablard's book adds important new dimensions to our understanding of the acceleration of modernity in turn-of-the-century Argentina and its concomitant social effects, a subject of great interest to scholars who study this South American nation.