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Psychiatry and empire

'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 psy...

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Group Author: Mahone, Sloan, 1966-; Vaughan, Megan.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
Subjects:
General & world history.
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
British & Irish history.
History of Medicine.
History.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230593244
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. The volume advances our understanding of the rise of modern psychiatry as it collided with the psychology of colonial rule.
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2007.
Carrier Form: 256 p.
ISBN: 9781403947116
9780230593244 :
0230593240 :
CLC: R749.05-09
Contents: 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.

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