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Surfacing Up : Psychiatry and Social Order in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1908-1968 /

Focusing on the history of the Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum (renamed a mental hospital after 1933), situated near Bulawayo in the former Southern Rhodesia, Surfacing Up explores the social, cultural, and political history of the colony that became Zimbabwe after gaining its independence in 1980. The ph...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Jackson, Lynette
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Lobengula's wives lived here" : the colonization of space and meaning and the birth of the asylum in Southern Rhodesia
  • Bodies in custody : Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum, 1908-1933
  • Black men, white "civilization," and routes to Ingutsheni
  • Women interrupted : traveling women, anxious men, and ascriptions of madness
  • Psychiatric modernity in black and white, 1933-1942
  • The Africans do not complain : the monologue of reason about madness at Ingutsheni, 1942-1968.