Psychiatry and empire / edited by Sloan Mahone and Megan Vaughan.

Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

ix, 243 pages ; 22 cm.

Taking science to the colonies : psychiatric innovation in France and North Africa / Richard C. Keller -- East African psychiatry and the practical problems of empire / Sloan Mahone -- Microphysics of power : mental nursing in South Africa in the first half of the twentieth century / Shula Marks -- Unsettled minds : gender and settling madness in Fiji / Jacqueline Leckie -- 'Godless' Freud and his Indian friends : an Indian agenda for psychoanalysis / Shruti Kapila -- Mapother of the Maudsley and psychiatry at the end of the Raj / James H. Mills and Sanjeev Jain -- Nature of the native mind : contested views of Dutch colonial psychiatrists in the former Dutch East Indies / Hans Pols -- Imperial networks and postcolonial independence : the transition from colonial to transcultural psychiatry / Alice Bullard -- Madness, vice and tabanka : post-colonial residues in Trinidadian conceptualisations of mental illness / Roland Littlewood.

Includes bibliographical references and index.