Mad tales from the Raj: colonial psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58
Ernst, Waltraud
Mad tales from the Raj: colonial psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58 - Delhi Anthem Press 2012 - xvii, 155 p. - Anthem South Asian studies .
"First published in the UK by Routledge 1991" - T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mad Tales from the Raj’ is an extensively researched study of mental illness within the context of British colonialism in early nineteenth-century India. The author challenges the assumption that western medical psychology was impartial and highlights the extent to which it reflected British colonial ideology and practice. This long overdue reprint makes available in easily accessible form an authoritative assessment of western, institution-based psychiatry during the East India Company’s period. It includes a fully revised introduction that locates the work in relation to recent scholarly discourse in the field of history of colonial medicine as well as additional material on the treatment of the 'native insane'.
9789380601489
Public policy
Public policy - Health
Psychiatry - India - History - 19th century
Psychiatry - Great Britain - History - 19th century
British - Mental health - India--History - 19th century
India - History - British occupation, 1765-1947
History, 19th Century - India
Colonialism - history - Great Britain
362.1968900954 / E7M2
Mad tales from the Raj: colonial psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58 - Delhi Anthem Press 2012 - xvii, 155 p. - Anthem South Asian studies .
"First published in the UK by Routledge 1991" - T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mad Tales from the Raj’ is an extensively researched study of mental illness within the context of British colonialism in early nineteenth-century India. The author challenges the assumption that western medical psychology was impartial and highlights the extent to which it reflected British colonial ideology and practice. This long overdue reprint makes available in easily accessible form an authoritative assessment of western, institution-based psychiatry during the East India Company’s period. It includes a fully revised introduction that locates the work in relation to recent scholarly discourse in the field of history of colonial medicine as well as additional material on the treatment of the 'native insane'.
9789380601489
Public policy
Public policy - Health
Psychiatry - India - History - 19th century
Psychiatry - Great Britain - History - 19th century
British - Mental health - India--History - 19th century
India - History - British occupation, 1765-1947
History, 19th Century - India
Colonialism - history - Great Britain
362.1968900954 / E7M2