Chris Sandal-Wilson

Mandatory Madness (eBook, ePUB)

Colonial Psychiatry and Mental Illness in British Mandate Palestine

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009430418
• Artikelnr.: 70911355

Autorenporträt

Chris Sandal-Wilson is a Lecturer in Medical History at the University of Exeter. He holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Cambridge and was previously a Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I: 1. Psychiatry in Palestine between the Ottomans and the British
2. Enumerating insanity: pathologies, translations, and the census
II: 3. Petitions, families, and pathways to the asylum
4. Insanity before the courts: defining abnormality, punishing normalcy
5. Getting in and getting out of the criminal lunatic section
III: 6. Investing in psychiatric institutions and expertise into the 1940s
7. Treating the mentally ill: work, drugs, and electricity
Epilogue: partitions and afterlives.