| Psychiatry and Empire 2007 Edition Contributor(s): Mahone, S. (Editor), Vaughan, M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1403947112 ISBN-13: 9781403947116 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2007 Annotation: "Psychiatry and Empire" brings together scholars in the History of Medicine 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | History - Medical | Psychiatry - General - History | World - General |
| Dewey: 325.320 |
| Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 5.89" W x 8.74" (0.91 lbs) 243 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: '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. The volume advances our understanding of the rise of modern psychiatry as it collided with the psychology of colonial rule. |