Colonialism and Transnational Psychiatry: The Development of an Indian Mental Hospital in British India, C. 1925–1940 - Brossura

Ernst, Waltraud

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1783083522 ISBN 13: 9781783083527

Casa editrice: Anthem Pr, 2014

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull?autore

Waltraud Ernst is Professor in the History of Medicine in the Department of History, Philosophy and Religion at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Anthem Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1783083522
• ISBN 13: 9781783083527
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 274
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile