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288 pages |
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Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE WALLS -- 1. On the Tightrope of Culture -- 2. Decolonizing Treatment in Psychiatry -- TWO. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE IMMIGRATION OFFICE -- 3. Ambivalent Inclusion: Psychiatrists, Nuns, and Bureaucrats in Conversation -- THREE. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE POLICE OFFICE -- 4. Denuncia: The Subject Verbalized -- FOUR. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE SHELTER -- 5. Paradoxes of Redemption: Translating Selves and Experimenting with Conversion -- FIVE. REENTERING THE SCENE: THE CLINIC -- 6. Tragic Translations: "I am afraid of falling. Speak well of me, speak well for me" -- EPILOGUE: OTHER SCENES -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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9780520276666 (paper) |
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0520276663 (paper) |
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9780520276659 (hardback) |
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0520276655 (hardback) |
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