TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Pringle, Yolana,
TI  -  Psychiatry and Decolonisation in Uganda
T2  -  Mental Health in Historical Perspective,
SN  -  9781137600943
U1  -  960  23
PY  - 2019///
CY  -  London
PB  -  Palgrave Macmillan UK,  Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  -  Medicine
KW  -  History
KW  -  Oral history
KW  -  World history
KW  -  Africa
N1  -  1. Introduction -- 2. A Place on Mulago Hill -- 3. The 'Africanisati on' 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
N2  -  This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the y ears of decolonisation. It examines the challenges facing a new generat ion of psychiatrists as they took over responsibility for psychiatry at the end of empire, and explores the ways psychiatric practices were ti ed to shifting political and development priorities, periods of instabi lity, 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 res earch with oral histories, Yolana Pringle traces how this question came to dominate both national and international discussions on mental heal th care reform, including at the World Health Organization, and helped spur a culture of experimentation and creativity globally. As Pringle s hows, however, the history of psychiatry during the years of decolonisa tion remained one of marginality, and ultimately, in the context of war and violence, the decolonisation of psychiatry was incomplete
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