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Overview'Psychiatry and Empire' brings together scholars in the History of Medicine and Colonialism to explore questions of race, gender and power relations in former colonial states across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific. The volume advances our understanding of the rise of modern psychiatry as it collided with the psychology of colonial rule. Full Product DetailsAuthor: S. Mahone , M. VaughanPublisher: Palgrave USA Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 2007 ed. Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.517kg ISBN: 9781403947116ISBN 10: 1403947112 Pages: 243 Publication Date: 28 November 2007 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews<p>“The book includes ten chapters, each of which is impressive in its own right and which collectively add considerable nuance to our understanding of the colonial world as well as the practice and intellectual influence of psychiatry within it. Class, gender and race all emerge as important and interrelated themes that the individual authors handle with great sensitivity. The chapters, individually and collectively, deal with powerful themes and the writing is particularly fluent and persuasive.” <br>-- Pamela Dale, History.Transnational <p> The book includes ten chapters, each of which is impressive in its own right and which collectively add considerable nuance to our understanding of the colonial world as well as the practice and intellectual influence of psychiatry within it. Class, gender and race all emerge as important and interrelated themes that the individual authors handle with great sensitivity. The chapters, individually and collectively, deal with powerful themes and the writing is particularly fluent and persuasive. <br>-- Pamela Dale, History.Transnational Author InformationSLOAN MAHONE is University Lecturer in the History of Medicine at Oxford University, UK, and Deputy Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford. She is currently revising a book manuscript on the nature of 'lunacy' in the tropics and is Director of a new research project on trauma and personhood in colonial Kenya. MEGAN VAUGHAN is Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at King's College, Cambridge University, UK. She is the author of Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius, Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultu Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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