Psychiatry and Empire

ALICE BULLARD Associate Professor, School of History Technology and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology, USASANJEEV JAIN Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, IndiaSHRUTI KAPILA Assistant Professor of History at Tufts University, USARICHARD KELLER Assistant Professor of Medical History and the History of Science, the University of Wisconsin-MadisonJACQUELINE LECKIE Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, the University of Otago, New ZealandROLAND LITTLEWOOD Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry at the Royal Free and at University College London, UKSHULA MARKS Emeritus Professor of History and Honorary Fellow of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UKJAMES H. MILLS Director of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH), Glasgow, UKHANS POLS Director of the Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science, the University of Sydney, Australia

'Psychiatry and Empire is a valuable contribution to the history of psychiatry and to understanding current issues of cultural difference in mental health care.' Tony O'Brien, Metapsychology online reviews 'The book includes ten chapters, each of which is impressive in its own right and which collectively add considerable nuance to our understanding of the colonial world as well as the practice and intellectual influence of psychiatry within it. Class, gender and race all emerge as important and interrelated themes that the individual authors handle with great sensitivity. The chapters, individually and collectively, deal with powerful themes and the writing is particularly fluent and persuasive.' - Pamela Dale, History.Transnational

• Introduction: M.Vaughan Taking Science to the Colonies: Psychiatric Innovation in France and North Africa; R.Keller Psychiatry and the Practical Problems of Empire; S.Mahone The Microphysics of Power: Mental Nursing in South Africa in the First Half of the 20th Century; S.Marks Unsettled Minds: Colonialism, Gender and Settling Madness in Fiji; J.Leckie The 'Godless' Freud and his Indian Friends: An Indian Agenda for Psychoanalysis; S.Kapila Mapother of the Maudsley and Psychiatry at the End of the Raj; J.H.Mills & S.Jain The Nature of the Native Mind: Contested Views of Dutch Colonial Psychiatrists in the Former Dutch East Indies; H.Pols Imperial Networks and Postcolonial Independence: The Transition from Colonial to Transcultural Psychiatry; A.Bullard Madness, Vice and Tabanka: Post-Colonial Residues in Trinidadian Conceptualisations of Mental Illness; R.Littlewood