| Description |
xxiv, 254 p. : ill. |
| Series |
African studies : history, politics, economics, and culture |
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African studies (Routledge (Firm))
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| Bibliography |
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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Mental health services -- South Africa.
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Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- South Africa.
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Mentally ill -- Abuse of -- South Africa.
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Mental health policy -- Social aspects -- South Africa.
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South Africa -- Race relations.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780415886673 |
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9780203129555 (electronic bk.) |
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