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• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 28 November 2007

'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

• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
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• Release Date : 22 October 2020

Depression has colonized the world. Today, more than 300 million of us have been diagnosed as depressed. But 150 years ago, "depression" referred to a mood, not a sickness. Does that mean

• Publisher : Berghahn Books
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• Release Date : 01 June 2012

At the turn of the century, Sigmund Freud’s investigation of the mind represented a particular journey into mental illness, but it was not the only exploration of this ‘territory’

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 05 July 2021

The focus of this volume is the history of imperial science between 1600 and 1960, although some essays reach back prior to 1600 and the section about decolonization includes post-1960 material. Each contributed

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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• Release Date : 15 September 2008

Nineteenth-century French writers and travelers imagined Muslim colonies in North Africa to be realms of savage violence, lurid sexuality, and primitive madness. Colonial Madness traces the genealogy and development of

• Publisher : Cornell University Press
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• Release Date : 15 April 2019

Claire Edington's fascinating look at psychiatric care in French colonial Vietnam challenges our notion of the colonial asylum as a closed setting, run by experts with unchallenged authority, from which

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
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• Release Date : 26 July 2009

This work shows how, during the 20th century, the perspective on victims of trauma shifted from suspicion to recognition. From these ethnographical fieldworks, the authors thus propose a broader perspective

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 06 December 2018

This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the years of decolonisation. It examines the challenges facing a new generation of psychiatrists as they took over responsibility for psychiatry

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 27 October 2020

This handbook presents a thorough examination of the intricate interplay of race, ethnicity, and culture in mental health – historical origins, subsequent transformations, and the discourses generated from past and present

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
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• Release Date : 19 April 2022

This book offers a general introduction to historical sources in the history of psychiatry, delving into the range of sources that can be used to investigate this dynamic and exciting