Garcia, Angela,  1971- <br/><br/>
Pastoral clinic :  addiction and dispossession along the Rio Grande / 
Angela Garcia. 
 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  c2010. 
 - xv, 248 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm.;Pbk. 
<br/><br/> $29.95<br/>TB/236/210720 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-235) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction --<br/>Graveyard -- <br/>The elegiac addict -- <br/>Blood relative --<br/>Suicide as a form of life -- <br/>Experiments with care -- <br/>Conclusion: a new season. 
<br/><br/> The Pastoral Clinic takes us on a penetrating journey into an iconic Western landscape—northern New Mexico's Española Valley, home to 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 Espanola 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780520262089 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010001811 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB069992  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label> DNLM 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Heroin abuse--New Mexico.<br/>Drug addicts--New Mexico.<br/>Heroin Dependence--rehabilitation--New Mexico.<br/>Drug Users--New Mexico.<br/>Substance Abuse Treatment Centers--New Mexico.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.29309 GAR