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Surfacing up : psychiatry and social order in colonial Zimbabwe, 1908-1968
Author
Title
Surfacing up : psychiatry and social order in colonial Zimbabwe, 1908-1968 / Lynette A. Jackson.
ISBN
0801443105 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801489407 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005.
Physical Description
xiii, 230 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 25, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-222) and index.
Contents
"Lobengula's wives lived here" : the colonization of space and meaning and the birth of the asylum in Southern Rhodesia
Bodies in custody : Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum, 1908-1933
Black men, white "civilization," and routes to Ingutsheni
Women interrupted : traveling women, anxious men, and ascriptions of madness
Psychiatric modernity in black and white, 1933-1942
The Africans do not complain : the monologue of reason about madness at Ingutsheni, 1942-1968.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Mental Disorders - ethnology - Zimbabwe.
Commitment of Mentally Ill - history - Zimbabwe.
History, 20th Century - Zimbabwe.
Hospitals, Psychiatric - history - Zimbabwe.
Mental Disorders - etiology - Zimbabwe.
Social Control, Formal - Zimbabwe.
Socioeconomic Factors - Zimbabwe.
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