The Medicalisation of Incest and Abuse: Biomedical and Indigenous Perceptions in Rural Bolivia

ISBN-13: 9781138628144 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 230 str.

Carolina Borda

Opis

Original ethnographical research and first-hand accounts from hospitalised indigenous and peasant women who have experienced intrafamilial sexual violence come together to analyse Andean understandings of medical positivist practices and the psychiatric ‘treatment’ of incest and gender-based violence.

Spis treści

List of Figures, Chapter 1. Introduction, 1.1 Departure points, 1.2 Gender violence, 1.3 Incest, 1.4 Lawfulness and heterosexual intergenerational incest, 1.5 Incest in Bolivian Law, 1.6 Sexual violence, incest and ethnicity, 1.7 Institutional violence, 1.8 The research, 1.9 The main characters, 1.10 The organisation of the manuscript, 1.11 References, Chapter 2. Gender, Ethnicity and Class in Bolivia’s National Psychiatric Hospital, 2.1 Introduction. The psychiatric contradiction: to be "ill" is to be "dangerous", 2.2 The National Psychiatric Hospital since the unification of the INPGP (Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Gregorio Pacheco) (1980), 2.3 Power relationships: the staff and the inmates, 2.4 "Evo only likes señoritas": imagining hierarchies, 2.5 Relationships between staff and inmates, 2.6 Relationships among medical and non-medical staff, 2.7 Relationships between religious, medical and non-medical staff, 2.8 Control mechanisms: is she dangerous or ill? Conceptions of "mental illness": diagnosis and treatment, 2.9 Diagnosis: "hablando con la pared" (talking to the wall), 2.10 Treatment, 2.11 Give them their place: they mustn’t forget, 2.12 Patient’s rights, 2.13 Final remarks, 2.14 References, Chapter 3. Humanness as a Continuum, 3.1 Introduction: Sexual violence against women in Bolivia, 3.2 Sexual violence against women and psychiatry in Bolivia, 3.3 Sexual violence as a common background of female inmates, 3.4 Qhencha: the outside within the psychiatric hospital, 3.5 Final remarks, 3.6 References, Chapter 4. Las Condenadas: from Indigenous Traditional Medicine to Psychiatric Biomedicine, 4.1 Introduction, 4.2 Incest and kinship, 4.3 Incest, Qhencha, homo sacer, 4.4 Qhencha as an implicit experiential concept, 4.5 Susto, 4.6 Sacer, 4.7 Schizophrenia, third person: I am the third Eve, 4.8 Final remarks, 4.9 References, Chapter 5. Conclusions, 5.1 Incest and its universality, 5.2 Psychiatric institution, 5.3 Situated knowledge, 5.4 Third person, 5.5 References, Appendice, Photographs, References

O autorze

Carolina Borda-Niño-Wildman is a Colombian anthropologist, political scientist, and butoh dancer, working on academic and applied research on gender, ethnicity, identity politics, human rights, performance, and humanness in contexts of violence in Latin America and Europe.