Medicalizing Ethnicity
Subtitle: The Construction of Latino Identity in Psychiatric Settings (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: August 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780801487521
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Social & cultural anthropology; New York (State); Medical / Nursing; Ethnopsychology; Psychiatry, Transcultural; Social Science; New York; Medical; Minority Studies - General; Mental Illness; Ethnic Studies - General; Psychiatry - General; Anthropology - Cultural; Anthropology - General; Hispanic Americans; Mental health services
First sentence: In May 1989 I was hired as senior research assistant by a university-based mental health research center in New York City to work on the evaluation of three bilingual, bicultural psychiatric programs for Latino patients.