Title: Mad tales from the Raj
Description: "Mad Tales from the Raj: Colonial Psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58 is an authoritative assessment of western psychiatry within the context of British colonialism. This updated version provides a comprehensive study of official attitudes and practices in relation to both Indian and European patients during the dominance of the British East India Company. It includes a fully revised introduction that locates the work in relation to recent scholarly discourse in the field of history of colonial medicine. Based on government proceedings, medical case reports, contemporary publications, diaries and literary material, Mad Tales from the Raj provides a highly readable and illuminating account of contemporary psychiatric treatment and colonial policies. It is fascinating reading not only to students of colonial history, medical sociology and related disciplines, but to all those with a general interest in life in the colonies."--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Psychoanalysis and colonialism, Mental health, Mentally ill, Psychiatric hospitals, British, Mental health policy, Psychiatry, History, Colonialism, Health Policy, History, 19th Century, Mental Health Services, Mentally Ill Persons, Psychiatry, history, India, history, british occupation, 1765-1947, British, india, Great britain, history, 19th century, Social sciences and psychoanalysis
Places: Great Britain, India
Time periods: 19th century, British occupation, 1765-1947