Mental health and madness have been challenging topics for historians. The field has been marked by tension between the study of power, expertise and institutio

Psychiatric Contours investigates new histories of psychiatry, derangement, and agitated subjectivities in colonial and decolonizing Africa. The volume lets the

This book examines innovative approaches to the use of qualitative methods in mental health research. It describes the development and use of methods of data co

This volume adds to the plurality of global histories by locating the global through its articulation and manifestation within particular localities. It accompl

One day, Matthew Eaton was walking through an impromptu animal shelter display at his local pet store when suddenly an eight-month-old kitten dug his claws into