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Colonialism and Transnational Psychiatry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

Colonialism and Transnational Psychiatry

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-15
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  • Publisher: Anthem Press

This book focuses on the Ranchi Indian Mental Hospital, the largest public psychiatric facility in colonial India during the 1920s and 1930s. It breaks new ground by offering unique material for a critical engagement with the phenomenon of the ‘indigenisation’ or ‘Indianisation’ of the colonial medical services and the significance of international professional networks. The work also provides a detailed assessment of the role of gender and race in this field, and of Western and culturally specific medical treatments and diagnoses. The volume offers an unprecedented look at both the local and global factors that had a strong bearing on hospital management and psychiatric treatment at this institution.

Colonialism and Transnational Psychiatry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

Colonialism and Transnational Psychiatry

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-12-01
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  • Publisher: Anthem Press

This book focuses on the Ranchi Indian Mental Hospital, the largest public psychiatric facility in colonial India during the 1920s and 1930s. It breaks new ground by offering unique material for a critical engagement with the phenomenon of the ‘indigenisation’ or ‘Indianisation’ of the colonial medical services and the significance of international professional networks. The work also provides a detailed assessment of the role of gender and race in this field, and of Western and culturally specific medical treatments and diagnoses. The volume offers an unprecedented look at both the local and global factors that had a strong bearing on hospital management and psychiatric treatment at this institution.

Mad Tales from the Raj
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 174

Mad Tales from the Raj

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-03-01
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  • Publisher: Anthem Press

‘Mad Tales from the Raj’ is an authoritative assessment of western psychiatry within the context of British colonialism. This revised version provides a comprehensive study of official attitudes and practices in relation to both Indian and European patients during the dominance of the British East India Company. It is fascinating reading not only to students of colonial history, medical sociology and related disciplines, but to all those with a general interest in life in the colonies.

Work, psychiatry and society, c. 1750–2015
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 563

Work, psychiatry and society, c. 1750–2015

This book offers the first systematic critical appraisal of the uses of work and work therapy in psychiatric institutions across the globe, from the late eighteenth to the end of the twentieth century. Contributors explore the daily routine in psychiatric institutions and ask whether work was therapy, part of a regime of punishment or a means of exploiting free labour. By focusing on mental patients’ day-to-day life in closed institutions, the authors fill a gap in the history of psychiatric regimes. The geographical scope is wide, ranging from Northern America to Japan, India and Western as well as Eastern Europe, and the authors engage with broad historical questions, such as the impact of colonialism and communism and the effect of the World Wars. The book presents an alternative history of the emergence of occupational therapy and will be of interest not only to academics in the fields of history and sociology but also to health professionals.

Alcohol, psychiatry and society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Alcohol, psychiatry and society

The medicalisation of alcohol use has become a prominent discourse that guides policy makers and impacts public perceptions of alcohol and drinking. This book maps the historical and cultural dimensions of the phenomenon. Emphasising medical attitudes and theories regarding alcohol and the changing perception of alcohol consumption in psychiatry and mental health, it explores the shift from the use of alcohol in clinical treatment and as part of dietary regimens to the emergence of alcoholism as a disease category that requires medical intervention and is considered a threat to public health.

Health and Medicine in the Indian Princely States
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 168

Health and Medicine in the Indian Princely States

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-12-12
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Since the 1980s there has been a continual engagement with the history and the place of western medicine in colonial settings and non-western societies. In relation to South Asia, research on the role of medicine has focussed primarily on regions under direct British administration. This book looks at the 'princely states' that made up about two fifths of the subcontinent. Two comparatively large states, Mysore and Travancore - usually considered as 'progressive' and 'enlightened' - and some of the princely states of Orissa - often described as 'backward' and 'despotic' - have been selected for analysis. The authors map developments in public health and psychiatry, the emergence of specialis...

Work, Psychiatry and Society, C.1750-2015
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 378

Work, Psychiatry and Society, C.1750-2015

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Breaks new ground in the history of psychiatry by focusing on the role of work in mental-health institutions.

Transnational Psychiatries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

Transnational Psychiatries

This book offers something new in the history of psychiatry. Within a transnational research framework, it presents original historical case studies and conceptual reflections on comparative and related methodologies. Systematic comparison and transfer studies, as well as aspects of entangled history, are employed in relation to themes such as different cultural meanings pertaining to the same term; the transfer of treatment practices and institutional regimes; localised practices and (re)-emerging forms of patient care; the circulation of early anti-psychiatrists views; the impact of war and politics on patients welfare and on psychiatric discourse; and diversification of psychotherapeutic ...

Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Research into 'colonial' or 'imperial' medicine has made considerable progress in recent years, whilst the study of what is usually referred to as 'indigenous' or 'folk' medicine in colonized societies has received much less attention. This book redresses the balance by bringing together current critical research into medical pluralism during the last two centuries. It includes a rich selection of historical, anthropological and sociological case-studies that cover many different parts of the globe, ranging from New Zealand to Africa, China, South Asia, Europe and the USA.

Alcohol Flows Across Cultures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 235

Alcohol Flows Across Cultures

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-03-03
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book maps changing patterns of drinking. Emphasis is laid on the connected histories of different regions and populations across the globe regarding consumption patterns, government policies, economics and representations of alcohol and drinking. Its transnational perspective facilitates an understanding of the local and global factors that have had a bearing on alcohol consumption and legislation, especially on the emergence of particular styles of ‘drinking cultures’. The comparative approach helps to identify similarities, differences and crossovers between particular regions and pinpoint the parameters that shape alcohol consumption, policies, legal and illegal production, and popular perceptions. With a wide geographic range, the book explores plural drinking cultures within any one region, their association with specific social groups, and their continuities and changes in the wake of wider global, colonial and postcolonial economic, political and social constraints and exchanges.