Madness in Buenos Aires: Patients, Psychiatrists and the Argentine State, 1880-1983 (Ohio RIS Latin America Series)

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Madness in Buenos Aires 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 right through the twentieth century, at the same time as also examining the ceaselessly contentious place of psychiatry in modern Argentina.

Drawing on plenty of in the past untapped archival sources, creator Jonathan Ablard uses the experience of psychiatric patients as a case study of how the Argentine state developed and functioned over the last century and of how Argentines interacted with it. Ablard argues that the capacity of the state to provide social services and products and professional opportunities and to keep an eye on the populace used to be ceaselessly constrained to an extent not in the past recognized in scholarly literature. These limitations, including a shortage of hospitals, insufficient budgets, and political and economic instability, shaped the experiences of patients, their families, and doctors and also influenced medical and lay ideas about the nature and significance of mental illness. Furthermore, these experiences, and the institutional framework in which they were imbedded, had a profound have an effect on on how Argentine psychiatrists discussed not only mental illness but also a host of related themes including immigration, poverty, and the role of the state in mitigating social problems.

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