TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chris Sandal-Wilson
TI  - Mandatory Madness: Colonial Psychiatry and Mental Illness in British Mandate Palestine
T2  - The Global Middle East
SN  - 9781009430371
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - Palestine
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Mental illness
KW  - Mental health laws
KW  - Psychoanalysis and colonialism
KW  - 1917-1948
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Asia
KW  - Administration
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -