Madness in Buenos Aires examines the interactions between psychiatrists, patients and their families, and the national state in modern Argentina. This book offe

Examines the interactions between psychiatrists, patients and their families, and the national state in modern Argentina. This book offers a fresh interpretatio

This is the first monograph to consider the significance of madness and irrationality in both Spanish and Spanish American literature. It considers various defi

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a massive wave of immigration transformed the cultural landscape of Argentina. Alongside other immigrants

Despite several studies on the social, cultural, and political histories of medicine and of public health in different parts of Latin America and the Caribbean,