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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Colonial Psychiatry"”.
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Beyond the asylum: Colonial psychiatry in French Indochina, 1880-1940
… beyond the asylum to consider the development of psychiatry in French Indochina as the product of everyday exchanges between lay people and experts. Drawing on archival research conducted over two years in Vietnam and France - including hundreds of patient case files - I trace the movements of …
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A literature review exploring how colonial psychiatry and colonialism interact in settler colonies in Africa
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Mental Illness and the British Mandate in Palestine, 1920-1948
… contributing to the well-developed literature on colonial psychiatry. Where this thesis departs from many of these institutionally-focussed histories of colonial psychiatry is in its source base; lacking hospital case files or articles in psychiatric journals, this thesis draws on an eclectic …
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Colonialism and the production of psychiatric knowledge in the Cape, 1891-1920
… The dissertation describes those features of colonialism rendered visible through Cape psychiatric practice, and explores their implications for the management of the Cape insane. It argues that Cape psychiatry mirrored and contributed to the racist and sexist attitudes upon which exploitation …
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Theatrical bodies and madness: a case study of a theatre playground in a South African forensic psychiatric hospital
… theatre space with the oppression and control of psychiatry when viewed as a Total Institution. I draw on the work of Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman in order to conceptualise a history and critique of psychiatry, and to contextualise how colonial psychiatry developed in South Africa. I compare …