TY - BOOK AU - Ernst,Waltraud TI - Mad Tales from the Raj: Colonial Psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58 T2 - Anthem South Asian Studies SN - 9781843318972 AV - RC451.I4 -- E76 2010eb U1 - 362.196/8900954 PY - 2010/// CY - London PB - Anthem Press KW - British -- Mental health -- India -- History -- 19th century KW - Mental health policy -- India -- History -- 19th century KW - Mentally ill -- India -- History -- 19th century KW - Psychiatric hospitals -- India -- History -- 19th century KW - Psychiatry -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century KW - Psychiatry -- India -- History -- 19th century KW - Psychoanalysis and colonialism -- India -- History -- 19th century KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/buse-ebooks/detail.action?docID=840468 ER -