Madness in Buenos Aires: Patients, Psychiatrists and the Argentine State, 1880-1983
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Madness in Buenos Aires : Patients, Psychiatrists and the Argentine State, 1880-1983 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.
Drawing on a number of previously untapped archival sources, Jonat…


















