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Examines psychiatric epidemiology's unique evolution, conceptually and socially, within and between diverse regions and cultures, underscoring its growing influence on the biopolitics of nations and worldwide health campaigns.
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AcknowledgmentsIntroductionAnne M. Lovell and Gerald M. Oppenheimer
Part One: Constructing Mental Health Utopias and Dystopias with Epidemiology1. From Epidemics of Terror to Landscapes of Fear: Psychiatric Epidemiology and the Psychological Reconstruction of Post-War Britain
Rhodri Hayward
2. Self-Participatory Surveillance: The Hisayama Study on Dementia in Japan
Junko Kitanaka
3. A Local Epistemic History of Psychiatric Epidemiology in Brazil: Pathways of Divergence from Global Epidemiology
Naomar Almeida-Filho
Part Two: Troubling the Boundaries of Psychiatric Epidemiology4. When Risk Factor Epidemiology Met Mental Health: The Narrative of Cardiovascular Disease and the Type A Personality Pattern
Gerald M. Oppenheimer and Richard Neugebauer
5. The First Epidemiological Studies in the Transcultural Psychiatry Section at McGill University
Emmanuel Delille
Part Three: De-centering Psychiatric Epidemiology in a Postcolonial world6. Of Fairies, Robots, Witches, and Zombies: Conceptualizing a History of Cross-Cultural Psychiatric Epidemiology in Nigeria
Matthew M. Heaton
7. Bringing Psychiatric Epidemiology to a Senegalese "Living Laboratory": Knowledge-Production and Erasure in the Interstices of Science
Anne M. Lovell
8. The Evolution of Community Epidemiological Studies in India: A Subaltern Critique
Pratap Sharan, Ananya Mahapatra, Debjani Das, and Alok Sarin
9. Taming the Tropics with Numbers: The Origins of Psychiatric Epidemiology in Colonial Taiwan
Harry Yi-Jui Wu
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index
About the author
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