Psychiatry and Empire

Author	: Sloan Mahone
Publisher	: Palgrave MacMillan
Total Pages	: 264
Release	: 2007-11-28
ISBN-10	: UOM:39015074261424
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Download or read book Psychiatry and Empire written by Sloan Mahone and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2007-11-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Psychiatry and Empire' brings together scholars in the History of Medicine and Colonialism to explore questions of race, gender and power relations in former colonial states across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific. The volume advances our understanding of the rise of modern psychiatry as it collided with the psychology of colonial rule.

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