Main Issues in Mental Health and Race

List of contents

1. From Enlightenment to Eugenics: Empire, Race, and Medicine 1780-c1950, Trevor Turner and Susan Collinson. 2. Recovering the Obvious: Race and Mental Health, Valentine Y. Mudimbe. 3. Identity and Psychopathology, David Barker. 4. Cultural Studies, Ethnicity and Mental Health, Gargi Bhattacharyya and John Gabriel. 5 Religious Issues in Ethnic Minority Mental Health: Special Reference to Schizophrenia in Afro-Caribbeans in Britain: a Systematic Review, Kate Miriam Loewenthal and Marco Cinnirella. 6. Law and Mental Health: Some Implications for Ethnic Minorities in England. 7. Black Families, William Obomanu. 8. The Mental Hleath of British Afro-Caribbean Children and Adolescents, Tami Kramer and Matthew Hodes. 9. Mental Health Problems in Black Refugees, Ros Ramsay and C. Gorst-Unsworth. 10. Substance Abuse in Black People of African Descent, Zelpha Kittler. 11. Alcohol Use in Black People of African Descent, Vincent Kirschner.

About the author

David Ndegwa Dele Olajide

Summary

This title was first published in 2003. This work arose out of the editors' concerns at the British preoccupation with an alleged epidemic of schizophrenia in people of African descent. Black people in contact with psychiatric services are commonly classed as schizophrenic or normal.

Product details

• Authors: David Ndegwa, Ndegwa David, Dele Olajide, Dele Ndegwa Olajide, Dele/ Ndegwa Olajide, Olajide Dele
• Assisted by: David Ndegwa (Editor), Dele Olajide (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781138713819
• ISBN: 978-1-138-71381-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Psychiatry, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity