Psychiatry and Empire (Cambridge Imperial & Post Colonial Studies)

Book Overview

'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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403947112
• ISBN13: 9781403947116
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.7"