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Autore |
Ernst Waltraud <1955-> |
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Titolo |
Mad tales from the Raj : colonial psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58 / / Waltraud Ernst [[electronic resource]] |
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London : , : Anthem Press, , 2010 |
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1-283-37796-9 |
9786613377968 |
1-84331-897-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvii, 155 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Anthem South Asian Studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Psychiatry - India - History - 19th century |
Psychiatric hospitals - India - History - 19th century |
British - Mental health - India - History - 19th century |
Mentally ill - India - History - 19th century |
Mental health policy - India - History - 19th century |
Psychoanalysis and colonialism - India - History - 19th century |
Psychiatry - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Mental health policy - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
India History British occupation, 1765-1947 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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, |
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"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 -- " |
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This revised and enlarged reprint provides a comprehensive assessment of the British response to mental illness among both colonizers and the colonized during the East India Company's rule in India. |
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