An Impossible Inheritance : Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic /

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Weaving sound historical research with rich ethnographic insight, An Impossible Inheritance tells the story of the emergence, disavowal, and afterlife of a distinctive project in transcultural psychiatry initiated at the Fann Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar, Senegal during the 1960s and 1970s. Today...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kilroy-Marac, Katie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2019]
Temas:
Psychiatric clinics > Senegal > Dakar.
Psychiatry > Senegal > Dakar > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
1960s.
1970s.
dakar.
fann psychiatric clinic.
ghosts.
haunted by the past.
haunted.
history.
imagination.
memory work.
moral practice.
mysterious death.
neoliberal transformation.
political dimensions.
post colonial transformation.
senegal.
spirit possession ceremonies.
transcultural psychiatry.
unexpected temporal dimensions.
witchcraft.
young doctor.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Entanglements
  • Rupture: Chasing a Ghost
  • 1. Archiving Madness: From Colonial Psychiatry to the Establishment of Fann
  • Interlude: Many Battles
  • 2. Origin Stories: Collomb's Fann and Senghor's Senegal
  • Rupture: A Letter Unanswered
  • 3. Nostalgic for Modernity (Or, Looking Back on a Golden Age)
  • Interlude: A Terrible Cry fr om the Past
  • 4. The Ink That Marked History
  • Interlude: Each in His Corner
  • 5. Strategic Ambivalence
  • Rupture: A Thing I Could Not See (The Joola)
  • 6. Distinctions of the Present
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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