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Psychiatry and Empire

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Editors:
  1. Sloan Mahone

    1. Oxford University, Oxford, UK
      Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford, UK

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  2. Megan Vaughan

    1. Cambridge University, UK

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Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Megan Vaughan
    Pages 1-16

  3. Taking Science to the Colonies: Psychiatric Innovation in France and North Africa

    • Richard C. Keller
    Pages 17-40

  4. East African Psychiatry and the Practical Problems of Empire

    • Sloan Mahone
    Pages 41-66

  5. The Microphysics of Power: Mental Nursing in South Africa in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

    • Shula Marks
    Pages 67-98

  6. Unsettled Minds: Gender and Settling Madness in Fiji

    • Jacqueline Leckie
    Pages 99-123

  7. The ‘Godless’ Freud and his Indian Friends: An Indian Agenda for Psychoanalysis

    • Shruti Kapila
    Pages 124-152

  8. Mapother of the Maudsley and Psychiatry at the End of the Raj

    • James H. Mills, Sanjeev Jain
    Pages 153-171

  9. The Nature of the Native Mind: Contested Views of Dutch Colonial Psychiatrists in the former Dutch East Indies

    • Hans Pols
    Pages 172-196

  10. Imperial Networks and Postcolonial Independence: The Transition from Colonial to Transcultural Psychiatry

    • Alice Bullard
    Pages 197-219

  11. Madness, Vice and Tabanka: Post-colonial Residues in Trinidadian Conceptualisations of Mental Illness

    • Roland Littlewood
    Pages 220-234

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 235-243
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About this book

'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.

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'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

Editors and Affiliations

  • Oxford University, Oxford, UK

    Sloan Mahone

  • Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford, UK

    Sloan Mahone

  • Cambridge University, UK

    Megan Vaughan

About the editors

ALICE BULLARD Associate Professor, School of History Technology and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA SANJEEV JAIN Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India SHRUTI KAPILA Assistant Professor of History at Tufts University, USA RICHARD KELLER Assistant Professor of Medical History and the History of Science, the University of Wisconsin-Madison JACQUELINE LECKIE Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, the University of Otago, New Zealand ROLAND LITTLEWOOD Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry at the Royal Free and at University College London, UK SHULA MARKS Emeritus Professor of History and Honorary Fellow of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK JAMES H. MILLS Director of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH), Glasgow, UK HANS POLS Director of the Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science, the University of Sydney, Australia

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