Madness and marginality : the lives of Kenya's white insane / Will Jackson.

  • Jackson, Will, 1980-
Date:
2013
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Description

Based on over 250 psychiatric case files, this book traces the lives of Kenya's 'white insane' to focus not on the 'great white hunters' and heroic pioneer farmers, but on those Europeans who did not manage to emulate the colonial ideal. In doing so, the book raises important new questions around deviance transgression and social control.

Publication/Creation

Manchester : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Physical description

xii, 209 pages ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-205) and index.

Contents

Approaching madness : deviant psychology in Kenya Colony -- 'No ordinary chaps' : class, gender and the licensing of transgression -- The lives of Kenya's white insane -- Battered wives and broken homes : the colonial family -- Stigma, shame and scandal : sex and mental illness -- States of emergency : psychosis and transgression.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    PP.R.1759
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780719088896
  • 0719088895