The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio

The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande

The Pastoral Clinic takes us on a penetrating journey into an iconic Western landscapeâ€”northern New Mexicoâ€™s EspaÃ±ola Valley, home to the highest rate of heroin addiction and fatal overdoses in the United States. In a luminous narrative, Angela Garcia chronicles the lives of several Hispano addicts, introducing us to the intimate, physical, and institutional dependencies in which they are entangled. We discover how history pervades this region that has endured centuries of material and cultural dispossession, and we come to see its heroin problem as a contemporary expression of these conditions, as well as a manifestation of the human desire to be released from them. Lyrically evoking the EspaÃ±ola Valley and its residents through conversations, encounters, and recollections, The Pastoral Clinic is at once a devastating portrait of addiction, a rich ethnography of place, and an eloquent call for a new ethics of care.
Country USA
Manufacturer University of California Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2010-06-08
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	University of California Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2010-06-08
Format	Kindle eBook

The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande