Mandatory Madness - Colonial Psychiatry and Mental Illness in British Mandate Palestine

"Bringing together Middle East studies, histories of empire, and the medical humanities, Mandatory Madness offers an innovative and deeply researched new social and cultural history of Palestine before 1948, and a rethinking of the history and archives of psychiatry from a non-Western context under British colonial rule"--

List of contents

Introduction; I: 1. Psychiatry in Palestine between the Ottomans and the British; 2. Enumerating insanity: pathologies, translations, and the census; II: 3. Petitions, families, and pathways to the asylum; 4. Insanity before the courts: defining abnormality, punishing normalcy; 5. Getting in and getting out of the criminal lunatic section; III: 6. Investing in psychiatric institutions and expertise into the 1940s; 7. Treating the mentally ill: work, drugs, and electricity; Epilogue: partitions and afterlives.

About the author

Chris Sandal-Wilson is a Lecturer in Medical History at the University of Exeter. He holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Cambridge and was previously a Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London.

Product details

• Authors: Chris Sandal-Wilson, Chris (University of Exeter) Sandal-Wilson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2025
• EAN: 9781009430388
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0943038-8
• No. of pages: 359
• Series: The Global Middle East
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Middle East / General, History of Medicine, Middle Eastern history, Colonialism and imperialism, Palestine