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Psychiatry, mental institutions, and the mad in apartheid South Africa
- Title
- Psychiatry, mental institutions, and the mad in apartheid South Africa / Tiffany Fawn Jones.
- Author
- Jones, Tiffany F. (Tiffany Fawn), 1972-
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 2012.
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Details
- Description
- xxiv, 254 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- African studies : history, politics, economics, and culture
- Uniform Title
- African studies (Routledge (Firm))
- Subject
- Mental health services > South Africa
- Mentally ill > Commitment and detention > South Africa
- Mentally ill > Abuse of > South Africa
- Mental health policy > Social aspects > South Africa
- Hospitals, Psychiatric > history > South Africa
- Commitment of Mentally Ill > history > South Africa
- History, 20th Century > South Africa
- Mental Health Services > history > South Africa
- Mentally Ill Persons > history > South Africa
- South Africa > Race relations
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 12-716
- ISBN
- 9780415886673
- 0415886678
- LCCN
- 2011033434
- OCLC
- 711041478
- Author
- Jones, Tiffany F. (Tiffany Fawn), 1972-
- Title
- Psychiatry, mental institutions, and the mad in apartheid South Africa / Tiffany Fawn Jones.
- Imprint
- New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Series
- African studies : history, politics, economics, and cultureAfrican studies (Routledge (Firm))
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 12-716