[DUCUNGÉ, Eduardo B. Ordax, Dir.]

Republic of Cuba, Ministry of Public Health. Havana Psychiatric Hospital / Memoir [Magazine of the Havana Psychiatric Hospital, Vol. X, Extraordinary Number, 1969]

Havana: Magazine of the Havana Psychiatric Hospital, 1969. First Edition. Octavo. Blue paper-covered boards; 212,[8]pp; illus. Covers ring-stained and lightly rubbed at edges; contents clean, tight and unmarked. A history and operational report of the notorious Mazorra Hospital, where conditions were so awful prior to the Revolution that photographs of the patients were used to promote the revolutionary cause. The report notes the hospital's gains in the years since Castro's takeover, with illustrations showing a glistening, state-of-the-art medical facility with inmates happily pursuing recreational and vocational activities.

Price: $50.00

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