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Psychiatric contours : new African histories of madness
Title
Psychiatric contours : new African histories of madness / Nancy Rose Hunt and Hubertus Büschel.
ISBN
9781478059325
147805932X
9781478030348
1478030348
9781478026112
1478026111
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 345 pages) : illustrations
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Summary
"Psychiatric Contours investigates the history of madness and psychiatry in Africa, focusing on the colonial and early postcolonial periods. The objects of study are varied, but they circle around a few key terms: madness, the psychopolitical, and the vernacular. While Foucault demonstrated that psychiatric practices or internment marked a clear shift in the relationship to madness in Europe in the seventeenth century, African histories are less sharply delineated. Most psychiatric patients were white colonialists, but madness has both residual and emergent vernacular histories outside of the clinic that become entangled with colonial notions, and the African remaking of colonial concepts provides a key aspect of global histories of psychiatry and psychopolitics. The essays in Psychiatric Contours aim is to inspire further discussions and research regarding histories of madness derived from everyday perceptions and experiences of madness and psychiatry in the Global South"-- Provided by publisher.
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e-Duke books scholarly collection 2024. OCLC KB.
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Print version: Psychiatric contours. Durham : Duke University Press, 2024
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 30, 2024
Series
Theory in forms
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Madness, the psychopolitical, and the vernacular : rethinking psychiatric histories / Nancy Rose Hunt
Archives of false prophets : inventing the future in a West African psychiatric hospital / Nana Osei Quarshie
Missionary anxieties, psychopathology, and decolonization : a biographical approach / Richard Hölzl
Mr. Tanka and voices : a Cameroonian patient writing about schizophrenia / Hubertus Büschel
Delirious words and social ambition in French colonial Madagascar / Raphaël Gallien
Sickness and symptoms as cultural capacities in colonial ideology / Jonathan Sadowsky
Rethinking Brain Fag Syndrome : students, symptoms, and a late colonial survey in Nigeria / Matthew M. Heaton
Casting out anger : stress, possession, and the everyday in Taita, Kenya / Sloan Mahone
The universal, the particular, and vernacular resistance in colonial Algeria / Richard C. Keller
Precarious families, "danger," and psychiatric internment in 1960s Dakar : an archive of kin letters / Romain Tiquet
Lorry dreams and slave ship disintegrations : motion, madness, and the incongruent / Nancy Rose Hunt
Coda: On the importance of suffering / Hubertus Büschel.
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