Mandatory Madness: Colonial Psychiatry and Mental Illness in British Mandate Palestine
Material type: TextSeries: The Global Middle East ; 26Publisher: Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024Description: 347 p., 24 cmISBN:- 9781009430371
- Psychiatry -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century
- Mental illness -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century
- Mental health laws -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century
- Psychoanalysis and colonialism -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century
- Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia -- Administration -- History -- 20th century
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Books | Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) Library Main Library - 0.01 | S 1201 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | S 1201 |
Includes bibliographical references.
Psychiatry in Palestine between the Ottomans and the British -- Enumerating insanity : pathologies, translations, and the census -- Petitions, families, and pathways to the asylum -- Insanity before the courts : defining abnormality, punishing normalcy -- Getting in and getting out of the criminal lunatic asylum -- Investing in psychiatric institutions and expertise into the 1940s -- Treating the mentally ill : work, drugs, and electricity -- Epilogue : partitions and afterlives.
"Bringing together Middle East studies, histories of empire, and the medical humanities, Mandatory Madness offers an innovative and deeply researched new social and cultural history of Palestine before 1948, and a rethinking of the history and archives of psychiatry from a non-Western context under British colonial rule"-- Provided by publisher.
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