Surfacing Up - Psychiatry and Social Order in Colonial Zimbabwe, 19081968

Klappentext She draws on psychiatric case files to analyze the changing economic, social, and environmental conditions of the colonized, the varying needs of the white settlers, and the shifting boundaries between these two communities. She seeks to extend and enrich our understanding of how a significant institution changed how citizens and subjects experienced the colonial social order. Zusammenfassung Focusing on the history of the Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum (renamed a mental hospital after 1933), situated near Bulawayo in the former Southern Rhodesia, Surfacing Up explores the social, cultural, and political history of the colony that became...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lynette Jackson, Lynette A. Jackson
• Editore: Cornell University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 28.11.2005
• EAN: 9780801489402
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-8940-2
• Pagine: 248
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Serie: Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry; Cornell Studies in the History; Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry; Cornell Studies in the History
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Tematiche generali