Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History
by
Jennifer L. Lambe
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
On the outskirts of Havana lies Mazorra, an asylum known to--and at times feared by--ordinary Cubans for over a century. Since its founding in 1857, the island's first psychiatric hospital has been an object of persistent political attention. Drawing on hospital documents and government records, as...