1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459460003321

Autore

Ernst Waltraud <1955->

Titolo

Mad tales from the Raj : colonial psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58 / / Waltraud Ernst [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2010

ISBN

1-283-37796-9

9786613377968

1-84331-897-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 155 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Anthem South Asian Studies

Disciplina

362.196/8900954

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di contenuto

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 -- "

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003670549707536

Autore

Farrell, J. G.

Titolo

Troubles / J. G. Farrell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Harmondsworth, England : Penguin Books Ltd., 1982

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia