Medicalizing Ethnicity
Subtitle: The Construction of Latino Identity in a Psychiatric Setting (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: August 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780801438219
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Social & cultural anthropology; Psychiatry - General; Mental Health And Hygiene; Ethnopsychology; Psychology; New York (State); Medical; New York; Mental Illness; Ethnic Studies - General; General; Psychiatry, Transcultural; Mental Health; 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.