Mandatory madness : colonial psychiatry and mental illness in British mandate Palestine / Chris Sandal-Wilson

"Bringing together Middle East studies, histories of empire, and the medical humanities, Mandatory Madness offers an innovative and deeply researched new social and cultural history of Palestine before 1948, and a rethinking of the history and archives of psychiatry from a non-Western context under British colonial rule"--.

Mandatory Madnessoffers a fresh new perspective on a pivotal period in the history of modern Palestine, by putting mental illness and the psychiatric encounters it engendered at the heart of the story. Through a careful and creative reading of a wide range of archival and published material in English, Arabic, and Hebrew, Chris Sandal-Wilson reveals how a range of actors responded to mental illness in the decades before 1948. Rather than a concern of European Jewish psychiatric experts alone, questions around the causes, nature, and treatment of mental illness were negotiated across diverse and sometimes surprising sites in mandate Palestine. Bringing together histories of medicine, colonialism, and the modern Middle East,Mandatory Madnesshighlights how the seemingly personal and private matter of mental illness generated distinctive forms of entanglement: between colonial state and society, Arabs and Jews, and Palestine and the wider region.

Medienart:

Buch

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY: Cambridge University Press ; 2024

Reihe:

The global Middle East - 26

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sandal-Wilson, Chris, 1992- [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Cover [lizenzpflichtig]

ISBN:

978-1-009-43037-1

978-1-009-43038-8

Themen:

Colonialism & imperialism
Geschichte der Medizin
Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens
Great Britain
HISTORY / Middle East / General
History of medicine
Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
Mental health laws
Mental illness
Middle Eastern history
Palästina
Palestine
Psychiatry
Psychoanalysis and colonialism

Anmerkungen:

Includes bibliographical references

Umfang:

pages cm

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

1852027738