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OverviewThis study of mental illness and its cures in colonial and immediately post-Union Natal and Zululand investigates Westernised treatments of insanity at the Natal Government Asylum, as well as less well-known routes back to health via African and Indian modes of healing. Julie Parle writes of the amandiki, bands of frenzied women who explained their illness as caused by possession by a male ancestor. She discusses quacks, medicines for hysteria and drunkenness, faith healers of different kinds, and suicide in all communities. Finally, she considers how mental health services became centralised under state control from Pretoria, with important consequences for the future of psychiatry and mental health services in modern South Africa. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Julie ParlePublisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press Imprint: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press Dimensions: Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.620kg ISBN: 9781869140984ISBN 10: 1869140982 Pages: 360 Publication Date: 15 May 2007 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Unknown Availability: Out of stock Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationJulian Parle is a senior lecturer in the Department of History at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |