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Psychiatry and decolonisation in Uganda /

1137600950

9781137600950

1137600942

9781137600943

Psychiatry and decolonisation in Uganda /

[Book]

Yolana Pringle.

London, United Kingdom :

Palgrave Macmillan,

[2019]

1 online resource

Mental health in historical perspective

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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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 political and development priorities, periods of instability, and a broader context of transnational and international exchange. At its heart is a question that has concerned psychiatrists globally since the mid-twentieth century: how to bridge the social and cultural gap between psychiatry and its patients? Bringing together archival research with oral histories, Yolana Pringle traces how this question came to dominate both national and international discussions on mental health care reform, including at the World Health Organization, and helped spur a culture of experimentation and creativity globally. As Pringle shows, however, the history of psychiatry during the years of decolonisation remained one of marginality, and ultimately, in the context of war and violence, the decolonisation of psychiatry was incomplete.

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Psychiatry and decolonisation in Uganda.

9781137600943

Decolonization-- Uganda.

Mental health services-- Uganda-- History-- 20th century.

Psychiatry-- Uganda-- History-- 20th century.

Mental Health Services-- history.

Africa.

African history.

East Africa.

Medicine.

Oral history.

Psychiatry.

Uganda.

World history.

Uganda.

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Pringle, Yolana

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