Rivera Garza, Cristina,  1964- <br/><br/>
La Castañeda Insane Asylum :   Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico /  
Cristina Rivera Garza ; translated by Laura Kanost. 
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<br/><br/>Introduction: Words in a Title -- La Castañeda General Insane Asylum, 1884-1930 -- Entryway: A Mental Health Routine -- The Psychiatric Interview: The Fox and the Goose -- Through My Narrative Was I Born, My Narrative Sustains Me: Women Authoring Selves -- Looking Insane -- The Pain of Becoming Modern: Suffering and Redemption in the Medical Histories of La Castañeda -- Con-juring the Body: Making History and Fiction. 
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<br/><br/> "An inside view of the workings of La Castañeda General Insane Asylum-a public mental health institution founded in Mexico City in 1910 only months before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780806168531 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Manicomio General La Castañeda (Mexico City, Mexico)<br/>Manicomio General La Castañeda (Mexico City, Mexico)--History--20th century--Sources.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Psychiatric hospital care<br/>Mentally ill--Institutional care<br/>Mentally ill<br/>Mentally ill--Mexico--Mexico City--Interviews.<br/>Mentally ill--Institutional care--Mexico--Mexico City.<br/>Psychiatric hospital care--History--Mexico--Mexico City--20th century--Sources.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Mexico--Mexico City
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Sources<br/>Interviews<br/>History<br/>Electronic books.