Surfacing up
Subtitle: psychiatry and social order in colonial Zimbabwe, 1908-1968
By: Lynette A. Jackson.
Series: Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum -- History; Ingutsheni Mental Hospital -- History; Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum -- Zimbabwe; Ingutsheni Mental Hospital -- Zimbabwe; Psychiatry -- Social aspects -- Zimbabwe -- History -- 20th century; Psychiatric hospital care -- Zimbabwe -- History -- 20th century; Social control -- Zimbabwe -- History -- 20th century; Mental Disorders -- ethnology -- Zimbabwe; Mental Disorders -- etiology -- Zimbabwe; Socioeconomic Factors -- Zimbabwe; Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history -- Zimbabwe; Commitment of Mentally Ill -- history -- Zimbabwe; Social Control, Formal -- Zimbabwe; History, 20th Century -- Zimbabwe
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Lobengula's wives lived here" : the colonization of space and meaning and the birth of the asylum in Southern Rhodesia; title: Bodies in custody : Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum, 1908-1933; title: Black men, white "civilization," and routes to Ingutsheni; title: Women interrupted : traveling women, anxious men, and ascriptions of madness; title: Psychiatric modernity in black and white, 1933-1942; title: The Africans do not complain : the monologue of reason about madness at Ingutsheni, 1942-1968.