Colonizing Madness : : Asylum and Community in Fiji /

Colonizing Madness : : Asylum and Community in Fiji / / Jacqueline Leckie.

In Colonizing Madness Jacqueline Leckie tells a forgotten story of silence, suffering, and transgressions in the colonial Pacific. It offers new insights into a history of Fiji by entering the Pacific Islands’ most enduring psychiatric institution—St Giles Psychiatric Hospital—established as Fiji’s...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
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Leckie, Jacqueline,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2019]
©2020
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (294 p.) :; 26 b&w illustrations, 4 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1. Introducing the Colonization of Madness into Fiji
  • Chapter 2. Displaced Minds: Indo-Fijians and Mental Distress
  • Chapter 3. Lialia? Indigenous Fijians, Community, and “Madness”
  • Chapter 4. Mad Women
  • Chapter 5. Diagnoses and Discourse of Mental Disorders
  • Chapter 6. Struggling with Madness: Control, Treatments, and Resistance
  • Chapter 7. Conclusion: Recolonizing Mental Health in Postcolonial Fiji?
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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