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Psychiatry, mental institutions, and the mad in apartheid South Africa / Tiffany Fawn Jones.
Van Pelt Library RA790.7.S66 J66 2012
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- 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
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