Colonizing Madness : Asylum and Community in Fiji.

"Leckie tells a forgotten story of silence, suffering, and transgressions in the colonial Pacific. It offers new insights into a history of Fiji by entering the Pacific Islands' most enduring psychiatric institution--St Giles Psychiatric Hospital--established as Fiji's Public Lunatic...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Leckie, Jacqueline
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Mental illness > Social aspects > Fiji.
Mentally ill > Fiji > Suva.
Asylums > Fiji > Suva > History.
Maladies mentales > Aspect social > Fidji.
Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale > Fidji > Suva.
Asiles > Fidji > Suva > Histoire.
HISTORY > Oceania.
Asylums
Mental illness > Social aspects
Mentally ill
Fiji
Fiji > Suva
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introducing the colonalization of madness into Fiji
  • Displaced minds: Indo-Fijians and mental distress
  • Lialia? Indigenous Fijians, community and "madness"
  • Mad women
  • Diagnoses and discourse of mental disorders
  • Struggling with madness: control, treatments, and resistance.

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