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100 1 _aChris Sandal-Wilson
245 1 0 _aMandatory Madness:
_bColonial Psychiatry and Mental Illness in British Mandate Palestine
264 1 _aCambridge;
_aNew York:
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2024
300 _a347 p.,
_c24 cm
490 0 _aThe Global Middle East;
_v26
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 _aPsychiatry 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.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aPsychiatry
_zPalestine
_xHistory
_y20th century
650 0 _aMental illness
_zPalestine
_xHistory
_y20th century
650 0 _aMental health laws
_zPalestine
_xHistory
_y20th century
650 0 _aPsychoanalysis and colonialism
_zPalestine
_xHistory
_y20th century
651 0 _aPalestine
_xHistory
_y1917-1948
651 0 _aGreat Britain
_xColonies
_zAsia
_xAdministration
_xHistory
_y20th century
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