Mad tales from the Raj
Subtitle: colonial psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58
By: Waltraud Ernst
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781843318811; 9781843318682; 9781843318972
Notes: "First published in the UK by Routledge 1991"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Colonizing the mind; title: Madness and the politics of colonial rule; title: Ideological positions; title: Bureaucracy, corruption, and public opinion; title: The sick, the poor, and the mad; title: Administrative reforms and legal provision; title: The institutions; title: The role of institutionalization; title: Towards uniformity; title: Inside the institutions; title: The medical profession; title: The search for fortune and professional recognition; title: The medicalization of madness; title: The subordination of "native" medicine; title: Medicine and empire; title: The patients; title: "Highly irregular conduct" and "neglect of duty"; title: "Drawn very much from the same class"; title: A passage from India; title: The changing fortunes of asylum inmates; title: Being insane in British India; title: Medical theories and practices; title: Popular images and medical concepts; title: "Moral" therapy, "mental" illness, and "physical" derangement; title: Diagnostics and therapeutic practice; title: Aetiology and prognosis; title: Treatment; title: The question of "non-restraint"; title: Social discrimination, racial prejudice, and medical concepts; title: East is East, and West is best; title: Conclusion: "Mad dogs and Englishmen."