Insanity, race and colonialism: managing mental disorder in the post-emancipation British Caribbean, 1838-1914
By: Smith, Leonard
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: United Kingdom -- Palgrave Macmillan -- 2014Description: x, 285pISBN: 9781137028624Subject(s): Medicine and health | Diseases | Nervous system | Mental disorders DDC classification: 616.89 SMI/I Summary: 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.
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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.