Los pacientes del Manicomio La Castañeda y sus diagnósticos. Una propuesta desde la historia cuantitativa (México, 1910-1968)

Molina, Andrés Ríos; Sacristán, Cristina; Sacristán, Teresa Ordorika; Carrillo, Ximena López

doi:10.3989/asclepio.2016.15

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“…El estado de conservación de las historias clínicas y la utilización de criterios archivísticos adecuados puede retrasar el trabajo del investigador. Molina et al, 2016) también realizaron estudios sobre historias clínicas pero centrándose en el Manicomio de La Castañeda en la ciudad de México. Efectuaron un análisis cuantitativo para identificar diagnósticos y entender cómo la descripción de padecimiento mental de cada momento histórico y la forma en la cual los contextos socio-político, tecnológico y clínico fueron determinantes en los aumentos y disminuciones de las afecciones más diagnosticadas en la población de La Castañeda.…”

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Historias del cuerpo : análisis de discurso de las historias clínicas de mujeres internadas en el asilo de Lomas, Provincia de Buenos Aires, entre 1920 y 1950

Granda¹

2017

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This research had the purpose of analysing the notion of female body that health workers of Asilo de Lomas in Temperley (nowadays Hospital Esteves) / Hospital Nacional de Alienadas (nowadays Hospital Moyano), CABA, had through the discourse analysis of the medical records of women who entered the psychiatric hospitals between 1920 and 1950 as well as to analyse how this notion was related to certain practices. We selected 15 medical records that were identified by our research team as relevant for a qualitative approach among 372 medical records of the collection. Through this analysis we were able to identify the norms that ruled female bodies in that historical context and who required an exclusion of the social space, which was also legitimized by the psychiatric discourse of the time. We noted that "reason" was considered as a value and women's bodies, memory, attention and affection were to be centred in the households, demureness and cordiality. Strengthened gestures, laughs, being "camp", aggressive or excited were a clear evidence of a mental alteration to be treated or excluded. Family conflicts as well as arguments with their husbands were determinant at the moment of defining diagnosis and the word of male relatives took special relevance when deciding the admissions. In the medical-psychiatric discourse the abject bodies of women were being constructed, bodies that were subjected to coercion, exclusion and to a lesser extent, care, and that also constructed agency through resistance mechanisms: in their discourse during medical interviews, in escape attempts and even by trying to supply themselves outside the official circuit.

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Historias del cuerpo : análisis de discurso de las historias clínicas de mujeres internadas en el asilo de Lomas, Provincia de Buenos Aires, entre 1920 y 1950

Granda¹

2017

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“…An enduring if inconsistently vibrant subfield, the history of psychiatry in Latin America and the Caribbean has of late acquired renewed energy. A recent crop of books dedicated to Mexico's most important psychiatric institution, La Castañeda Asylum, probe issues of long‐standing scholarly interest, such as the intersection between psychiatric and socio‐political power, while also featuring new questions, including diagnosis (Ríos Molina 2017). In this respect, Cristina Rivera Garza's La Castañeda Insane Asylum: Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico , ably translated from the Spanish by Laura Kanost, represents a unique contribution.…”

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Rivera Garza, Cristina (2020) La Castañeda Insane Asylum: Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico, University of Oklahoma Press (Norman), xviii + 237 pp. £23.54 pbk.

Lambe

2023

Bull Latin American Res

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An enduring if inconsistently vibrant subfield, the history of psychiatry in Latin America and the Caribbean has of late acquired renewed energy. A recent crop of books dedicated to Mexico's most important psychiatric institution, La Castañeda Asylum, probe issues of long-standing scholarly interest, such as the intersection between psychiatric and socio-political power, while also featuring new questions, including diagnosis (Ríos Molina 2017). In this respect, Cristina Rivera Garza's La Castañeda Insane Asylum: Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico, ably translated from the Spanish by Laura Kanost, represents a unique contribution. For several decades now, Rivera Garza has been one of the pre-eminent interpreters of that history, with her published work reflecting a particular interest in gender, power and female subjectivity. Much of the writing in La Castañeda Insane Asylum first saw light in the form of a dissertation (1995) and was subsequently reinterpreted in fictional form (Nadie me verá llorar, 1999). The book thus bridges several analytical moments and modes to productive and occasionally disorienting effect, as Rivera Garza stages a reflexive dialogue with the asylum's history as well as her own efforts, past and present, to interpret it for a variety of audiences.Early chapters consider the cycles of rebuilding and disappointment common to all public psychiatric institutions, as well as the intersection between such efforts and the course of history outside the institution, especially the turbulence attending the Mexican Revolution. This territory necessarily leads Rivera Garza into discussions of how race, class, gender and sexuality shaped and differentiated the experiences of La Castañeda's inmates and employees alike. This context is largely familiar to readers of Rivera Garza's published work but is channelled productively here through the inner workings of the institution: its daily routines, the psychiatric interview and photography, to name a few points of entry. These chapters productively centre on patient life and subjectivity, though they perhaps occasionally overstate the 'agency' exercised by female patients in particular, as in the author's claim that the shift away from the diagnosis of moral insanity by 1930 reflected a 'clear victory for patients over Porfirian psychiatry' (p. 97).In general, however, the relationship between patients and psychiatrists is rendered with delicacy and circumspection. Rivera Garza ascribes particular importance to inmates' 'discursive strategies' in consequential but uneven dialogue with those of their physicians. In her words, patients' 'illness narratives did not arrive within a predetermined and apparently stable context, but rather, they helped to shape that context in fundamental and fraught ways. In other words, they did not resist a determined reality or social order, nor did they propose a counterhegemonic strategy; on the contrary, they were participating in its very creation' (p. 13). If this argument reflects a scholarly consensus at this point...

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“…Las referidas instituciones fueron el Hospital General (Álvarez Cordero, 2010;Sánchez Rosales, 2002); el Hospicio de Niños (Santiago Antonio, 2014); y al Manicomio General (Ramos de Viesca y Viesca, 1998;Ríos Molina, Sacristán, Ordorika Sacristán, y López Carrillo, 2016). Estas tres instituciones requirieron no sólo de obra arquitectónica y servicios propios, también de la extensión de los proyectos hidráulicos y de alumbrado público de la ciudad, así como de la adquisición de terrenos -en algunos casos, donados por los fraccionadores de las colonias emergentes-, estableciéndose una relación directa entre la transformación del entorno urbano de la Ciudad de México, y la fundación de estas tres instituciones (Sánchez Ruiz, 2010).…”

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La beneficencia pública y la Ciudad de México. El postremo eslabón de la política de salud de la modernidad porfiriana, 1877-1910

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Se presenta un análisis historiográfico de la Beneficencia Pública, como culmen de las Políticas Públicas de Salud porfirianas, y de su influencia en la transformación urbana de la Ciudad de México. Para ello, se examina el efecto que las instituciones que fueran blasón de la Beneficencia Pública --el Hospital General; el Hospicio de Niños; y el Manicomio General--, tuvieron sobre la Ciudad de México; demostrándose que fueron los higienistas mexicanos (entre médicos e ingenieros) los verdaderos planificadores urbanos del régimen, y, por ende, precursores del urbanismo moderno mexicano, empero examinando la eficacia de sus propuestas y acciones.

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Los pacientes del Manicomio La Castañeda y sus diagnósticos. Una propuesta desde la historia cuantitativa (México, 1910-1968)

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

Historias del cuerpo : análisis de discurso de las historias clínicas de mujeres internadas en el asilo de Lomas, Provincia de Buenos Aires, entre 1920 y 1950

Historias del cuerpo : análisis de discurso de las historias clínicas de mujeres internadas en el asilo de Lomas, Provincia de Buenos Aires, entre 1920 y 1950

Rivera Garza, Cristina (2020) La Castañeda Insane Asylum: Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico, University of Oklahoma Press (Norman), xviii + 237 pp. £23.54 pbk.

La beneficencia pública y la Ciudad de México. El postremo eslabón de la política de salud de la modernidad porfiriana, 1877-1910

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