Mad tales from the Raj colonial psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58 /
"Mad Tales from the Raj: Colonial Psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58 is an authoritative assessment of western psychiatry within the context of British colonialism. This updated version provides a comprehensive study of official attitudes and practices in relation to both Indian and European pat...
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| Format: | Elektronski eKnjiga |
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London ; New York :
Anthem Press,
2010.
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| Serija: | Anthem South Asian studies.
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| Online dostop: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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- Introduction : colonizing the mind
- Madness and the politics of colonial rule: Ideological positions ; Bureaucracy, corruption and public opinion ; The sick, the poor and the mad ; Administrative reforms and legal provision
- The institutions: The role of institutionalization ; Towards uniformity ; Inside the institutions
- The medical profession: The search for fortune and professional recognition ; The medicalization of madness ; The subordination of 'native' medicine ; Medicine and empire
- The patients: 'Highly irregular conduct' and 'neglect of duty' ; 'Drawn very much from the same class' ; A passage from India ; The changing fortunes of asylum inmates ; Being insane in British India
- Medical theories and practices: Popular images and medical concepts ; 'Moral' therapy, 'mental' illness and 'physical' derangement ; Diagnostics and therapeutic practice ; Aetiology and prognosis ; Treatment ; The question of 'non-restraint' ; Social discrimination, racial prejudice and medical concepts ; East is East, and West is best
- Conclusion : 'Mad dogs and Englishmen-- '.