Introduction -- Graveyard -- The elegiac addict -- Blood relative -- Suicide as a form of life -- Experiments with care -- Conclusion: a new season
Summary
The Pastoral Clinic takes us on a penetrating journey into an iconic Western landscape-northern New Mexico's Española Valley, home to the highest rate of heroin addiction and fatal overdoses in the United States. In a luminous narrative, Angela Garcia chronicles the lives of several Hispano addicts, introducing us to the intimate, physical, and institutional dependencies in which they are entangled. We discover how history pervades this region that has endured centuries of material and cultural dispossession, and we come to see its heroin problem as a contemporary expression of these co
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-235) and index
