Insanity, race and colonialism : managing mental disorder in the post-emancipation British Caribbean, 1838-1914 / Leonard Smith.

Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer serious material deprivation and racial oppression. This book examines the management and treatment of those who became insane, in the period until 1914....

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
Main Author: Smith, Leonard D., 1947- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Series:Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
Subjects:
Mental Health Services > history.
Mentally Ill Persons > history.
Racism > history.
Colonialism > history.
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
West Indies.
Black people > Mental health > West Indies, British.
Freed persons > Mental health > West Indies, British.
Freed persons > West Indies, British > Social conditions.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > West Indies, British.
Great Britain > Colonies > West Indies.
Black people > Mental health.
West Indies > British West Indies.
Local Note:
MSU: Purchased with funds provided by the Russell and Laura Whalls Library Endowment Fund.
Physical Description:x, 285 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Caribbean Institutions in Context
  • 2. The Early Lunatic Asylums
  • 3. Scandal in Jamaica
  • The Kingston Lunatic Asylum
  • 4. Reform
  • The Jamaica Lunatic Asylum
  • 5. Colonial Asylums in Transition
  • 6. Pathways to the Asylum
  • 7. The Patient Challenge
  • 8. The Colonial Asylum Regime
  • Conclusion.