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

• Autore: Ernst Waltraud <1955->
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Anthem Press, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 155 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 362.196/8900954
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: India History British occupation, 1765-1947
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mad tales from the Raj
• ISBN: 1-283-37796-9; 9786613377968; 1-84331-897-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459460003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Anthem South Asian Studies