Waltraud Ernst

Colonialism and Transnational Psychiatry (eBook, PDF)

The Development of an Indian Mental Hospital in British India, c. 1925-1940

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on the Ranchi Indian Mental Hospital, the largest public psychiatric facility in colonial India during the 1920s and 1930s. It breaks new ground by offering unique material for a critical engagement with the phenomenon of the 'indigenisation' or 'Indianisation' of the colonial medical services and the significance of international professional networks. The work also provides a detailed assessment of the role of gender and race in this field, and of Western and culturally specific medical treatments and diagnoses. The volume offers an unprecedented look at both the local and global factors that had a strong bearing on hospital management and psychiatric treatment at this institution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857280800
• Artikelnr.: 44360928

Autorenporträt

Waltraud Ernst

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Tables and Figures
Introduction
Chapter 1: Indianisation and its Discontents
Chapter 2: The Patients: The Demographics of Gender and Age, Locality, Occupation, Caste and Religion
Chapter 3: Institutional Trends and Standardisation: Deaths, Diseases and Cures
Chapter 4: Classifications, Types of Disorder and Aetiology
Chapter 5: Treatments
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index