Waltraud Ernst
Imprint: Anthem Press
Hardback ISBN 9780857280190
October 2013
294 Pages
36 tables and figures
This book focuses on the Ranchi Indian Mental Hospital, the
largest public psychiatric facility in colonial India during the 1920s
and 1930s. It breaks new ground by offering unique material for a
critical engagement with the phenomenon of the ‘indigenisation’ or
‘Indianisation’ of the colonial medical services and the significance of
international professional networks. The work also provides a detailed
assessment of the role of gender and race in this field, and of Western
and culturally specific medical treatments and diagnoses. The volume
offers an unprecedented look at both the local and global factors that
had a strong bearing on hospital management and psychiatric treatment at
this institution.
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