An Impossible Inheritance

Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic

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This creative, sophisticated book is a poignant love song to the attempt to treat madness differently--to the great ambition of Collomb's hospital in Dakar, and the loss of its initial vision. It reminds us how hard the task is and how much work there is to do. --T. M. Luhrmann, author, Of Two Minds Katie Kilroy-Marac has written a splendidly original and thoroughly researched study of a famous psychiatric clinic in Senegal. The book is an important contribution to the study of the encounter between Western psychiatry and the Global South, and deserves to obtain a wide readership. -- Andrew Scull, author of Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine
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Schrijver
Kilroy-Marac, Katie
Titel
An Impossible Inheritance
Uitgever
University of California Press
Jaar
2019
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
288
Gewicht
408 gr
EAN
9780520300200
Afmetingen
229 x 152 x 18 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback / softback

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