Dr. Beatriz Reyes-Foster is a medical anthropologist whose book
Psychiatric Encounters explores how culture shapes the diagnosis,
care, and outcomes of mental illness in a mental hospital in
Yucatan, Mexico.
About the Podcast
How many ways are there to be human? Each week Anthropologist on the Street Dr. Carie Little Hersh invites different cultural experts to illuminate the hidden ideas, practices, and power dynamics that make our lives both familiar and strange.