Buch, Englisch, 195 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 443 g
Buch, Englisch, 195 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 443 g
ISBN: 978-0-521-45330-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
In this history of the practice and theoretical underpinnings of colonial psychiatry in Africa, Jock McCulloch describes the clinical approaches of well-known European psychiatrists who worked directly with indigenous Africans, among them Frantz Fanon, J. C. Carothers and Wulf Sachs. They were a disparate group, operating independently of one another, and mostly in intellectual isolation. But despite their differences, they shared a coherent set of ideas about 'the African mind', premised on the colonial notion of African inferiority. In exploring the close association between the ideologies of settler societies and psychiatric research, this intriguing study is an attempt to explore colonial science as a system of knowledge and power.
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Fachgebiete
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
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Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Psychiatry and colonial practice; 3. Some contemporary reviews of colonial mental health systems; 4. Towards a theory of the African mind; 5. Theory into practice: Carothers and the politics of Mau Mau; 6. African intelligence, sexuality and psyche; 7. The African family and the colonial personality; 8. The elements of orthodoxy; 9. From psychiatry to politics; 10. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
