Psychiatry, mental institutions, and the mad in apartheid South Africa / Tiffany Fawn Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Tiffany F. (Tiffany Fawn), 1972-

Series:

African studies (Routledge (Firm))

African studies : history, politics, economics, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental health services--South Africa.

Mental health services.

Mentally ill--Commitment and detention--South Africa.

Mentally ill.

Mentally ill--Abuse of--South Africa.

Mental health policy--Social aspects--South Africa.

Mental health policy.

Social aspects.

Mentally ill--Abuse of.

Mentally ill--Commitment and detention.

South Africa--Race relations.

South Africa.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

Contents:

Prospects of a progressive mental health system in South Africa before apartheid: Tara Hospital and psychobiology, c.1939-1948

The "disordered" state: government policies and institutions for the administration of the mad during apartheid, 1948-1973

Patient accounts: life in state institutions and challenging exile, 1939-1961

Heinous crimes: community and cross-cultural psychiatry, and state mental health services for non-whites, 1948-1990

Controlling and challenging sexuality: psychiatric struggles over homosexuality in the 1960s-1980s

"Monopoly on madness?": private long-term mental institutions in South Africa, 1963-1989

Critics of the system?: the Church of Scientology and the international vilification of psychiatry in South Africa

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415886673

0415886678

OCLC:

711041478