Psychiatry and Empire

• Utgivningsdatum: 2007-11-28
• Mått: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
• Vikt: 442 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
• Antal sidor: 243
• Upplaga: 2007
• Förlag: Palgrave USA
• ISBN: 9781403947116

• Kolonialism och imperialism
• Medicinhistoria
• Psykiatri
• Nationell befrielse och självständighet

SLOAN MAHONE is University Lecturer in the History of Medicine at Oxford University, UK, and Deputy Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford. She is currently revising a book manuscript on the nature of 'lunacy' in the tropics and is Director of a new research project on trauma and personhood in colonial Kenya. MEGAN VAUGHAN is Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at King's College, Cambridge University, UK. She is the author of Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius, Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultu

'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

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