Psychiatry and Decolonisation in Uganda /

This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the years of decolonisation. It examines the challenges facing a new generation of psychiatrists as they took over responsibility for psychiatry at the end of empire, and explores the ways psychiatric practices were tied to shifting poli...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pringle, Yolana (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:	1st ed. 2019.
Series:	Mental Health in Historical Perspective,
Subjects:	Africa-History. Oral history. World history. Medicine-History. African History. Oral History. World History, Global and Transnational History. History of Medicine. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. A Place on Mulago Hill
3. The 'Africanisation' of Psychiatry
4. 'Mass Hysteria' in the Wake of Decolonisation
5. The Psychiatry of Poverty
6. Mobility, Power, and International Mental Health
7. The 'Trauma' of War and Violence
8. Conclusion.-Bibliography
Index .