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Psychiatry and empire / edited by Sloan Mahone and Megan Vaughan.
Van Pelt Library BF175.4.S65 P76 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychiatry--History.
- Psychiatry.
- History.
- Imperialism--Psychological aspects.
- Imperialism.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 243 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Summary:
- Psychiatry and Empire brings together scholars in the history of medicine and colonialism to explore questions of race, gender and power relations in former colonial states across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific. Focusing on the intellectual histories of concepts of mental illness, mental healing and strategies of coping and resistance, this volume advances our understanding of the rise of modern psychiatry as it collided with, and sometimes underpinned, the psychology of colonial rule.
- Contents:
- 2 Taking Science to the Colonies: Psychiatric Innovation in France and North Africa / Richard C. Keller 17
- 3 East African Psychiatry and the Practical Problems of Empire / Sloan Mahone 41
- 4 The Microphysics of Power: Mental Nursing in South Africa in the First Half of the Twentieth Century / Shula Marks 67
- 5 Unsettled Minds: Gender and Settling Madness in Fiji / Jacqueline Leckie 99
- 6 The 'Godless' Freud and his Indian Friends: An Indian Agenda for Psychoanalysis / Shruti Kapila 124
- 7 Mapother of the Maudsley and Psychiatry at the End of the Raj / James H. Mills, Sanjeev Jain 153
- 8 The Nature of the Native Mind: Contested Views of Dutch Colonial Psychiatrists in the former Dutch East Indies / Hans Pols 172
- 9 Imperial Networks and Postcolonial Independence: The Transition from Colonial to Transcultural Psychiatry / Alice Bullard 197
- 10 Madness, Vice and Tabanka: Post-colonial Residues in Trinidadian Conceptualisations of Mental Illness / Roland Littlewood 220.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781403947116
- 1403947112
- OCLC:
- 137313341
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