Psychiatry and Decolonisation in Uganda / / by Yolana Pringle.
This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the years of decolonisation. It examines the challenges facing a new generation of psychiatrists as they took over responsibility for psychiatry at the end of empire, and explores the ways psychiatric practices were tied to shifting poli...
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| Superior document: | Mental Health in Historical Perspective, |
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : Palgrave Macmillan UK :, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Edition: | First edition, 2019. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mental Health in Historical Perspective,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XII, 259 pages, 1 illustrations) |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A Place on Mulago Hill
- 3. The ‘Africanisation’ of Psychiatry
- 4. ‘Mass Hysteria’ in the Wake of Decolonisation
- 5. The Psychiatry of Poverty
- 6. Mobility, Power, and International Mental Health
- 7. The ‘Trauma’ of War and Violence
- 8. Conclusion.-Bibliography
- Index .