 | Medicalizing Ethnicity: The Construction of Latino Identity in a Psychiatric Setting Subjects: Hispanic Americans -- Mental health services -- New York (State) -- New York (City); Psychiatry Transcultural -- New York (State) -- New York (City); Ethnopsychology -- New York (State) -- New York (City); In Medicalizing Ethnicity , Vilma Santiago-Irizarry shows how commendable intentions can produce unintended consequences. Santiago-Irizarry conducted ethnographic fieldwork in three bilingual, bicultural psychiatric programs for Latino patients at... Vilma Santiago-Irizarry is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University. |
