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Psychiatry and decolonisation in Uganda

Pringle, Yolana.

Psychiatry and decolonisation in Uganda

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Psychiatry and decolonisation in Ugandaby Yolana Pringle.
Author:	Pringle, Yolana.
Published:	London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2019.
Description:	xii, 259 p. :digital ;22 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Mental health servicesHistory20th century.Uganda
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60095-0
ISBN:	9781137600950$q(electronic bk.)

Psychiatry and decolonisation in Uganda
Pringle, Yolana.

Psychiatry and decolonisation in Uganda[electronic resource] /by Yolana Pringle. - London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2019. - xii, 259 p. :digital ;22 cm. - Mental health in historical perspective. - Mental health in historical perspective..

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.

Open access.

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 political and development priorities, periods of instability, and a broader context of transnational and international exchange. At its heart is a question that has concerned psychiatrists globally since the mid-twentieth century: how to bridge the social and cultural gap between psychiatry and its patients? Bringing together archival research with oral histories, Yolana Pringle traces how this question came to dominate both national and international discussions on mental health care reform, including at the World Health Organization, and helped spur a culture of experimentation and creativity globally. As Pringle shows, however, the history of psychiatry during the years of decolonisation remained one of marginality, and ultimately, in the context of war and violence, the decolonisation of psychiatry was incomplete.

ISBN: 9781137600950$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-60095-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

837827
Mental health services
--History--Uganda--20th century.

LC Class. No.: RA790.7.U33 / P75 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 362.2096761

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