Psychiatry and Empire [electronic resource] /
Mahone, S.editor.
Vaughan, M.editor.
'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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Taking Science to the Colonies: Psychiatric Innovation in France and North Africa; 3 East African Psychiatry and the Practical Problems of Empire; 4 The Microphysics of Power: Mental Nursing in South Africa in the First Half of the Twentieth Century; 5 Unsettled Minds: Gender and Settling Madness in Fiji; 6 The 'Godless' Freud and his Indian Friends: An Indian Agenda for Psychoanalysis; 7 Mapother of the Maudsley and Psychiatry at the End of the Raj
8 The Nature of the Native Mind: Contested Views of Dutch Colonial Psychiatrists in the former Dutch East Indies9 Imperial Networks and Postcolonial Independence: The Transition from Colonial to Transcultural Psychiatry; 10 Madness, Vice and Tabanka: Post-colonial Residues in Trinidadian Conceptualisations of Mental Illness; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'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.
Civilization-History.
Great Britain-History.
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Asia-History.
World history.
Medicine.
Cultural History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
History of Science.
Asian History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
History of Medicine.