Psychiatry, Mental Institutions, and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa

ISBN-13: 9780415886673 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 254 str.

Tiffany Jones

Opis

This volume places the discussions of South Africa's mental institutions in an international context, highlighting the role that international organizations, such as the Church of Scientology, and political events such as the gay rights movement and the Cold War also played in shaping mental health policy in South Africa.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Prospects of a Progressive Mental Health System in South Africa Before Apartheid: Tara Hospital and Psychobiology, c1939-1948  2. The "Disordered" State: Government Policies and Institutions for the Administration of the Mad During Apartheid, 1948-1973  3. Patient Accounts: Life in State Institutions and Challenging Exile, 1939-1961  4. Heinous Crimes: Community and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry, and State Mental Health Services for Non-Whites, 1948-1990  5. Controlling and Challenging Sexuality: Psychiatric Struggles over Homosexuality in the 1960s-1980s  6. "Monopoly on Madness?": Private Long-Term Mental Institutions in South Africa, 1963-1989  7. Critics Of The System?: The Church of Scientology and the International Vilification of Psychiatry in South Africa.  Conclusion

O autorze

Tiffany Fawn Jones is an Assistant Professor of African History at California State University, San Bernardino, California. Her research interests lie in the intersection between ideas of health, race, gender, sexuality and power structures in Africa. She has published widely and is the book review editor for Notes and Records: an International Journal on Africa and the African Diaspora.