03777nam 22006972 450 991045946000332120151002020706.01-283-37796-997866133779681-84331-897-0(CKB)2670000000035361(EBL)840468(OCoLC)741612991(SSID)ssj0000518958(PQKBManifestationID)12161746(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000518958(PQKBWorkID)10497367(PQKB)10653671(UkCbUP)CR9781843318972(MiAaPQ)EBC840468(EXLCZ)99267000000003536120111212d2010|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMad tales from the Raj colonial psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58 /Waltraud Ernst[electronic resource]London :Anthem Press,2010.1 online resource (xvii, 155 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Anthem South Asian StudiesTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).1-84331-881-4 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 -- "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.Anthem South Asian StudiesPsychiatryIndiaHistory19th centuryPsychiatric hospitalsIndiaHistory19th centuryBritishMental healthIndiaHistory19th centuryMentally illIndiaHistory19th centuryMental health policyIndiaHistory19th centuryPsychoanalysis and colonialismIndiaHistory19th centuryPsychiatryGreat BritainHistory19th centuryMental health policyGreat BritainHistory19th centuryIndiaHistoryBritish occupation, 1765-1947PsychiatryHistoryPsychiatric hospitalsHistoryBritishMental healthHistoryMentally illHistoryMental health policyHistoryPsychoanalysis and colonialismHistoryPsychiatryHistoryMental health policyHistory362.196/8900954Ernst Waltraud1955-175213UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910459460003321Mad tales from the Raj2458824UNINA