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Psychiatry and Empire (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series)

Psychiatry and Empire (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series)

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'Psychiatry and Empire' brings together scholars in the History of Medicine and Colonialism to explore questions of race, gender and power relations in former colonial states across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific. The volume advances our understanding of the rise of modern psychiatry as it collided with the psychology of colonial rule.

Keywords

PSYCHIATRY_HISTORYIMPERIALISM

2007Book

Author(s)Megan Vaughan

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan

ISBN9781403947116

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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