Psychiatry, mental institutions, and the mad in apartheid South Africa

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Tiffany F. 1972- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Routledge 2012.
Series:African studies (Routledge (Firm))
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Table of Contents:
  • Prospects of a progressive mental health system in South Africa before apartheid: Tara Hospital and psychobiology, c.1939-1948
  • The "disordered" state: government policies and institutions for the administration of the mad during apartheid, 1948-1973
  • Patient accounts: life in state institutions and challenging exile, 1939-1961
  • Heinous crimes: community and cross-cultural psychiatry, and state mental health services for non-whites, 1948-1990
  • Controlling and challenging sexuality: psychiatric struggles over homosexuality in the 1960s-1980s
  • "Monopoly on madness?": private long-term mental institutions in South Africa, 1963-1989
  • Critics of the system?: the Church of Scientology and the international vilification of psychiatry in South Africa
  • Conclusion.