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Insanity, race and colonialismmanaging mental disorder in the post-emancipation British Caribbean, 1838-1914 /

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Insanity, race and colonialismLeonard Smith.
其他題名:	managing mental disorder in the post-emancipation British Caribbean, 1838-1914 /
作者:	Smith, Leonard.
出版者:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan :2014.
面頁冊數:	288 p. :7 b&w, ill.
附註:	Electronic book text.
附註:	Epublication based on: 9781137028624.
標題:	AfricansMental health services19th centuryWest Indies, British.
標題:	Great BritainRelationsEuropean Union countries.
電子資源:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137318058 (electronic bk.) :

Insanity, race and colonialismmanaging mental disorder in the post-emancipation British Caribbean, 1838-1914 /
Smith, Leonard.

Insanity, race and colonialismmanaging mental disorder in the post-emancipation British Caribbean, 1838-1914 /[electronic resource] :Leonard Smith. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan :2014. - 288 p. :7 b&w, ill. - Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies Series.

Electronic book text.

Introduction 1. Caribbean Institutions in Context 2. The Early Lunatic Asylums 3. Scandal in Jamaica - The Kingston Lunatic Asylum 4. Reform - The Jamaica Lunatic Asylum 5. Colonial Asylums in Transition 6. Pathways to the Asylum 7. The Patient Challenge 8. The Colonial Asylum Regime Conclusion.

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Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer serious material deprivation and racial oppression. This book examines the management and treatment of those who became insane, in the period until the Great War.Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer serious material deprivation and racial oppression. This book examines the management and treatment of those who became insane, in the period until 1914. The exposure of deplorable conditions and flagrant abuses in the public lunatic asylum in Kingston, Jamaica, in the late 1850s exemplified the defective nature of provision for mentally disordered people throughout the region. Thereafter, British-inspired 'civilising' reforms were gradually implemented in the main Caribbean territories. However, in some of the region's other colonies, improvements were little more than cosmetic. The circumstances that propelled people into the lunatic asylums are explored, as are the characteristics and experiences of those who inhabited the institutions. The dilemmas and contradictions apparent in asylum management highlighted the perennial difficulties of the British imperial project in action.

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Leonard Smith is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has written extensively on the history of provision for the insane in the 18th and 19th centuries. His publications include 'Cure, Comfort and Safe Custody': Public Lunatic Asylums in early Nineteenth-Century England (1999) and Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750-1830 (2007). He has worked in mental health services since 1973.

ISBN: 1137318058 (electronic bk.) :£60.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Africans
--Mental health services--West Indies, British.--19th centurySubjects--Geographical Terms:

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Great Britain
--Relations--European Union countries.

LC Class. No.: RC451.5

Dewey Class. No.: 362.2089960729

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