Mad Tales from the Raj : Colonial Psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58.

By: Ernst, WaltraudMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Anthem South Asian StudiesPublisher: London : Anthem Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (174 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781843318972Subject(s): British -- Mental health -- India -- History -- 19th century | Mental health policy -- India -- History -- 19th century | Mentally ill -- India -- History -- 19th century | Psychiatric hospitals -- India -- History -- 19th century | Psychiatry -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Psychiatry -- India -- History -- 19th century | Psychoanalysis and colonialism -- India -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mad Tales from the Raj : Colonial Psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58DDC classification: 362.196/8900954 LOC classification: RC451.I4 -- E76 2010ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Front Matter -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION TO THE REVISED EDITION -- Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION: COLONIZING THE MIND -- Chapter 2: MADNESS AND THE POLITICS OF COLONIAL RULE -- Bureaucracy, Corruption and Public Opinion -- The Sick, the Poor and the Mad -- Administrative Reforms and Legal Provision -- Chapter 3: THE INSTITUTIONS -- The Role of Institutionalization -- Towards Uniformity -- Chapter 4: THE MEDICAL PROFESSION -- The Search for Fortune and Professional Recognition -- The Medicalization of Madness -- The Subordination of 'Native' Medicine -- Medicine and Empire -- Chapter 5: THE PATIENTS -- 'Highly Irregular Conduct' and 'Neglect of Duty' -- 'Drawn Very Much from the Same Class' -- A Passage from India -- The Changing Fortunes of Asylum Inmates -- Being Insane in British India -- Chapter 6: MEDICAL THEORIES AND PRACTICES -- Popular Images and Medical Concepts -- 'Moral' Therapy, 'Mental' Illness and 'Physical' Derangement -- Diagnostics and Therapeutic Practice -- Aetiology and Prognosis -- Treatment -- The Question of 'Non-Restraint' -- Social Discrimination, Racial Prejudice and Medical Concepts -- East is East, and West is Best -- Chapter 7: CONCLUSION: 'MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN …' -- End Matter -- PRIMARY SOURCES -- NOTES -- INDEX.
Summary: This revised and enlarged reprint provides a comprehensive assessment of the British response to mental illness among both colonizers and the colonized during the East India Company's rule in India.
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Front Matter -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION TO THE REVISED EDITION -- Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION: COLONIZING THE MIND -- Chapter 2: MADNESS AND THE POLITICS OF COLONIAL RULE -- Bureaucracy, Corruption and Public Opinion -- The Sick, the Poor and the Mad -- Administrative Reforms and Legal Provision -- Chapter 3: THE INSTITUTIONS -- The Role of Institutionalization -- Towards Uniformity -- Chapter 4: THE MEDICAL PROFESSION -- The Search for Fortune and Professional Recognition -- The Medicalization of Madness -- The Subordination of 'Native' Medicine -- Medicine and Empire -- Chapter 5: THE PATIENTS -- 'Highly Irregular Conduct' and 'Neglect of Duty' -- 'Drawn Very Much from the Same Class' -- A Passage from India -- The Changing Fortunes of Asylum Inmates -- Being Insane in British India -- Chapter 6: MEDICAL THEORIES AND PRACTICES -- Popular Images and Medical Concepts -- 'Moral' Therapy, 'Mental' Illness and 'Physical' Derangement -- Diagnostics and Therapeutic Practice -- Aetiology and Prognosis -- Treatment -- The Question of 'Non-Restraint' -- Social Discrimination, Racial Prejudice and Medical Concepts -- East is East, and West is Best -- Chapter 7: CONCLUSION: 'MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN …' -- End Matter -- PRIMARY SOURCES -- NOTES -- INDEX.

This revised and enlarged reprint provides a comprehensive assessment of the British response to mental illness among both colonizers and the colonized during the East India Company's rule in India.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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