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Psychiatry and Empire


Psychiatry and Empire


Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies

von: S. Mahone, M. Vaughan

96,29 €

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 28.11.2007
ISBN/EAN: 9780230593244
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 256

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'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. The volume advances our understanding of the rise of modern psychiatry as it collided with the psychology of colonial rule.
Introduction: M.Vaughan Taking Science to the Colonies: Psychiatric Innovation in France and North Africa; R.Keller Psychiatry and the Practical Problems of Empire; S.Mahone The Microphysics of Power: Mental Nursing in South Africa in the First Half of the 20th Century; S.Marks Unsettled Minds: Colonialism, Gender and Settling Madness in Fiji; J.Leckie The 'Godless' Freud and his Indian Friends: An Indian Agenda for Psychoanalysis; S.Kapila Mapother of the Maudsley and Psychiatry at the End of the Raj; J.H.Mills & S.Jain The Nature of the Native Mind: Contested Views of Dutch Colonial Psychiatrists in the Former Dutch East Indies; H.Pols Imperial Networks and Postcolonial Independence: The Transition from Colonial to Transcultural Psychiatry; A.Bullard Madness, Vice and Tabanka: Post-Colonial Residues in Trinidadian Conceptualisations of Mental Illness; R.Littlewood
ALICE BULLARD Associate Professor, School of History Technology and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
SANJEEV JAIN Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India
SHRUTI KAPILA Assistant Professor of History at Tufts University, USA
RICHARD KELLER Assistant Professor of Medical History and the History of Science, the University of Wisconsin-Madison
JACQUELINE LECKIE Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, the University of Otago, New Zealand
ROLAND LITTLEWOOD Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry at the Royal Free and at University College London, UK
SHULA MARKS Emeritus Professor of History and Honorary Fellow of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
JAMES H. MILLS Director of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH), Glasgow, UK
HANS POLS Director of the Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science, the University of Sydney, Australia

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