The Pastoral Clinic

Angela Garcia

The Pastoral Clinic : Addiction and Dispossession Along the Rio Grande /Angela Garcia - London :University of California Press , 2010. - xv,248 p. ;24 cm.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: American Pastoral 1. Graveyard 2. The Elegiac Addict 3. Blood Relative 4. Suicide as a Form of Life 5. Experiments with Care Conclusion: A New Season Notes Bibliography Index

Takes us on a journey into an iconic Western landscape - northern New Mexico's Espanola Valley, home to the highest rate of heroin addiction and fatal overdoses in the United States. This title chronicles the lives of several Hispano addicts, introducing us to the intimate, physical, and institutional dependencies in which they are entangled.

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