TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ernst,Waltraud
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Mad tales from the Raj: colonial psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58 
T2  - Anthem South Asian studies
AV  - RC451.I4 E76 2010eb
U1  - 362.196/8900954 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Anthem Press
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Psychiatric hospitals
KW  - British
KW  - Mental health
KW  - Mentally ill
KW  - Mental health policy
KW  - Psychoanalysis and colonialism
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - British occupation, 1765-1947
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - "First published in the UK by Routledge 1991"--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : colonizing the mind -- Madness and the politics of colonial rule: Ideological positions ; Bureaucracy, corruption and public opinion ; The sick, the poor and the mad ; Administrative reforms and legal provision -- The institutions: The role of institutionalization ; Towards uniformity ; Inside the institutions -- The medical profession: The search for fortune and professional recognition ; The medicalization of madness ; The subordination of 'native' medicine ; Medicine and empire -- The patients: 'Highly irregular conduct' and 'neglect of duty' ; 'Drawn very much from the same class' ; A passage from India ; The changing fortunes of asylum inmates ; Being insane in British India -- Medical theories and practices: Popular images and medical concepts ; 'Moral' therapy, 'mental' illness and 'physical' derangement ; Diagnostics and therapeutic practice ; Aetiology and prognosis ; Treatment ; The question of 'non-restraint' ; Social discrimination, racial prejudice and medical concepts ; East is East, and West is best -- Conclusion : 'Mad dogs and Englishmen-- '; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
N2  - "Mad Tales from the Raj: Colonial Psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58 is an authoritative assessment of western psychiatry within the context of British colonialism. This updated version provides a comprehensive study of official attitudes and practices in relation to both Indian and European patients during the dominance of the British East India Company. It includes a fully revised introduction that locates the work in relation to recent scholarly discourse in the field of history of colonial medicine. Based on government proceedings, medical case reports, contemporary publications, diaries and literary material, Mad Tales from the Raj provides a highly readable and illuminating account of contemporary psychiatric treatment and colonial policies. It is fascinating reading not only to students of colonial history, medical sociology and related disciplines, but to all those with a general interest in life in the colonies."--Publisher's description
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10481468
ER  -