An edition of Mad tales from the Raj (2010)

Mad tales from the Raj

colonial psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58

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Mad tales from the Raj
Waltraud Ernst, Waltraud Ernst
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Anthem Press
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Subjects

Psychoanalysis and colonialism, Mental health, Mentally ill, Psychiatric hospitals, British, Mental health policy, Psychiatry, History, Colonialism, Health Policy, History, 19th Century, Psychiatric Hospitals, Mental Health Services, Mentally Ill Persons, Psychiatry, history, India, history, british occupation, 1765-1947, British, india, Great britain, history, 19th century, Social sciences and psychoanalysis

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Great Britain, India

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19th century, British occupation, 1765-1947

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Mad tales from the Raj: colonial psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58
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Table of Contents

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."

Edition Notes

"First published in the UK by Routledge 1991"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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London, New York, NY

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Dewey Decimal Class
362.196/8900954
Library of Congress
RC451.I4 E76 2010, 2010004335

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Pagination
p. cm.

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OL24050205M
ISBN 10
1843318814, 1843318687, 1843318970
ISBN 13
9781843318811, 9781843318682, 9781843318972
LCCN
2010004335
OCLC/WorldCat
468979332

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