Psychiatry and empire / edited by Sloan Mahone and Megan Vaughan.

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. Focusing on the intellectual histories of concepts of mental illness, menta...

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Other Authors: Mahone, Sloan, 1966- (Editor), Vaughan, Megan, 1954- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Series:Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
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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. Focusing on the intellectual histories of concepts of mental illness, mental healing and strategies of coping and resistance, this volume advances our understanding of the rise of modern psychiatry as it collided with, and sometimes underpinned, the psychology of colonial rule.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 243 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780230593244
0230593240
1349524131
9781349524136
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
Action Note:digitized