Repenser l'histoire de la santé mentale depuis les suds

(Re)thinking the history of mental disorder and psychiatry: an approach through the South(s)
 

Medical History, Volume 70 - Special Issue 2 - Avril 2026



Introduction to the special issue: Global South histories of madness – new perspectives on mental troubles and psychiatry from Latin America and Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries
Irène Favier, Romain Tiquet


From the traditional account to an ‘off-centred history’ of the mental hygiene movement: the question of the international (1908–1939)
Hernán Scholten


Mental illness, forced labour, and colonial biopower in Kabba Province of Northern Nigeria, 1900–1947
Unekwu Friday Itodo


In defence of medical judgement: medicalisation strategies in the daily life of the Lima Asylum in the last third of the 19th century
Elias Amaya Nuñez


Sources of madness: investigating the post-colonial history of psychiatry in Niger
Gina Aïtmehdi, Camille Evrard


Disparate emotions? The play of emotions in clinical histories and patients’ letters (Pinel Sanatorium, SP/Brazil – 1929–1944)
Yonissa Marmitt Wadi


‘I cannot say that he is of unsound mind’: the case of Lunatic Richard Lea
Mishka Waza