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245 10 a| Bedlam in the New Worldh| [electronic resource] :b| a Mexican madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment /c| Christina Ramos.;

260 a| Chapel Hill :b| University of North Carolina Press,c| [2022];

300 a| xiv, 250 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-237) and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

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520 a| "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 Hip©đlito 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"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Bedlam in the New World a Mexican madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment / Christina Ramos.

Author/creator	Ramos, Christina
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Description	xiv, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Hospital de San Hip©đlito (Mexico City, Mexico)--History. Psychiatric hospitals--Mexico. --Mexico City. --History. Psychiatry--Mexico. --History. Enlightenment--Mexico.

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.
Abstract	"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 Hip©đlito 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 note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-237) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2021041592
ISBN	9781469666563 (cloth)
ISBN	9781469666570 (paperback)
ISBN	(ebook)

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