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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ernst, Waltraud, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2010.
Colección:Anthem South Asian studies.
Temas:
1765-1947
Psychiatry > India > History > 19th century.
Psychiatric hospitals > India > History > 19th century.
British > Mental health > India > History > 19th century.
Mentally ill > India > History > 19th century.
Mental health policy > India > History > 19th century.
Psychoanalysis and colonialism > India > History > 19th century.
Psychiatry > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Mental health policy > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Psychiatry > history
Colonialism > history
Health Policy > history
History, 19th Century
Hospitals, Psychiatric > history
Mental Health Services > history
Mentally Ill Persons > history
Britanniques > Santé mentale > Inde > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale > Inde > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Santé mentale > Politique gouvernementale > Inde > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Psychanalyse et colonialisme > Inde > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Santé mentale > Politique gouvernementale > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Nervous System (incl. Brain)
HISTORY > Asia > General.
Mental health policy.
Mentally ill.
Psychiatric hospitals.
Psychiatry.
Psychoanalysis and colonialism.
India > History > British occupation, 1765-1947.
United Kingdom
India
Inde > Histoire > 1765-1947 (Occupation britannique)
Great Britain.
India.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • "

Ejemplares similares