Psychiatry and Decolonisation in Uganda
This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the years of decolonisation. It examines the challenges facing a new generation of psychiatrists as they took over responsibility for psychiatry at the end of empire, and explores the ways psychiatric practices were tied to shifting poli...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2019.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Series: | Mental Health in Historical Perspective,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A Place on Mulago Hill
- 3. The 'Africanisation' of Psychiatry
- 4. 'Mass Hysteria' in the Wake of Decolonisation
- 5. The Psychiatry of Poverty
- 6. Mobility, Power, and International Mental Health
- 7. The 'Trauma' of War and Violence
- 8. Conclusion.-Bibliography
- Index .