Surfacing Up : : Psychiatry and Social Order in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1908–1968 / / Lynette Jackson.
Focusing on the history of the Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum (renamed a mental hospital after 1933), situated near Bulawayo in the former Southern Rhodesia, Surfacing Up explores the social, cultural, and political history of the colony that became Zimbabwe after gaining its independence in 1980. The ph...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 1 chart/graph/map, 1 table, 10 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps and Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Colonial and Postcolonial Place-Names
- Introduction. Colonial and Postcolonial Politics of Mental Health in Zimbabwe
- 1. "Lobengula's Wives Lived Here": The Colonization of Space and Meaning and the Birth of the Asylum in Southern Rhodesia
- 2. Bodies in Custody: Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum, 1908-1933
- 3. Black Men, White "Civilization," and Routes to Ingutsheni
- 4. Women Interrupted: Traveling Women, Anxious Men, and Ascriptions of Madness
- 5. Psychiatric Modernity in Black and White, 1933-1942
- 6. The Africans Do Not Complain: The Monologue of Reason about Madness at Ingutsheni, 1942-1968
- Epilogue. Civilizing Mental Health Care: A Postcolonial Moment
- Notes
- Index