Psychiatry, mental institutions, and the mad in apartheid South Africa / Tiffany Fawn Jones.
| Author/creator | Jones, Tiffany F., 1972- |
| Other author | ProQuest (Firm) |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, 2012. |
| Description | xxiv, 254 pages : illustrations. |
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| Subjects |
| Series | African studies : history, politics, economics, and culture African studies (Routledge (Firm)) ^A560178 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011033434 |
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