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

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Routledge
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English

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Psychiatry, mental institutions, and the mad in apartheid South Africa
2012, Routledge
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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York
Series
African studies: history, politics, economics, and culture, African studies (Routledge (Firm))

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Dewey Decimal Class
362.2/10968
Library of Congress
RA790.7.S66 J66 2012, RA790.7.S66J66 2012, RA790.7.S66

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25032796M
ISBN 13
9780415886673
LCCN
2011033434
OCLC/WorldCat
711041478, 795008785

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