| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : Casting light from the margins -- Bedlam in the New World -- An enlightened madhouse -- It is easy to mistake a heretic for a madman : The view from the Inquisition -- Medicalization and its discontents -- Crime and punishment -- Conclusion : A defense of Bedlam |
| Summary |
"Christina Ramos reconstructs the history of this overlooked colonial hospital from its origins in 1567 to its transformation in the eighteenth century, when it began to admit a growing number of patients transferred from the Inquisition and secular criminal courts. Drawing on the poignant voices of patients, doctors, friars, and inquisitors, Ramos treats San Hipólito as both a microcosm and a colonial laboratory of the Hispanic Enlightenment--a site where traditional Catholicism and rationalist models of madness mingled in surprising ways. She shows how the emerging ideals of order, utility, rationalism, and the public good came to reshape the institutional and medical management of madness. While the history of psychiatry's beginnings has often been told as seated in Europe, Ramos proposes an alternative history of madness's medicalization that centers colonial Mexico and places religious figures, including inquisitors, at the pioneering forefront"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Christina Ramos is assistant professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Hospital de San Hipólito (Mexico City, Mexico) -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Hospital de San Hipólito (Mexico City, Mexico) fast |
| Subject |
Psychiatric hospitals -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History
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Psychiatry -- Mexico -- History
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Enlightenment -- Mexico
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HISTORY / Latin America / General
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Psychiatry
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Psychiatric hospitals
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Enlightenment
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Mexico -- Mexico City
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Mexico
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781469666594 |
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1469666596 |
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