An impossible inheritance : postcolonial psychiatry and the work of memory in a West African clinic /

"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. Tod...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kilroy-Marac, Katie, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Temas:
Centre psychiatrique du C.H.U.F. de Dakar.
Centre psychiatrique du C.H.U.F. de Dakar
Psychiatric clinics > Senegal > Dakar.
Psychiatry > Senegal > Dakar > History.
Cliniques psychiatriques > Sénégal > Dakar.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Psychiatric clinics
Psychiatry
Senegal > Dakar
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.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : entanglements
  • Archiving madness : from colonial psychiatry to the establishment of Fann
  • Origin stories : Collomb's Fann and Senghor's Senegal
  • Nostalgic for modernity (or, looking back on a golden age)
  • The ink that marked history
  • Strategic ambivalence
  • Distinctions of the present.

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