Psychiatry, mental institutions, and the mad in apartheid South Africa / Tiffany Fawn Jones.
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| Superior document: | African studies : history, politics, economics, and culture |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African studies (Routledge (Firm))
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| Physical Description: | xxiv, 254 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prospects of a progressive mental health system in South Africa before apartheid: Tara Hospital and psychobiology, c.1939-1948
- The "disordered" state: government policies and institutions for the administration of the mad during apartheid, 1948-1973
- Patient accounts: life in state institutions and challenging exile, 1939-1961
- Heinous crimes: community and cross-cultural psychiatry, and state mental health services for non-whites, 1948-1990
- Controlling and challenging sexuality: psychiatric struggles over homosexuality in the 1960s-1980s
- "Monopoly on madness?": private long-term mental institutions in South Africa, 1963-1989
- Critics of the system?: the Church of Scientology and the international vilification of psychiatry in South Africa
- Conclusion.