Mad tales from the Raj : colonial psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58 /
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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London :
Anthem Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Colonizing the mind
- Madness and the politics of colonial rule
- Ideological positions
- Bureaucracy, corruption and public opinion
- The sick, the poor and the mad
- Administrative reforms and legal provision
- The institutions
- The role of institutionalization
- Towards uniformity
- Inside the institutions
- The medical profession
- The search for fortune and professional recognition
- The medicalization of madness
- The subordination of "native" medicine
- Medicine and empire
- 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
- 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
- Conclusion: "Mad dogs and Englishmen
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