This conference aims to reconfigure our understanding of the ‘madwoman’ in England’s long nineteenth century, asking key questions about the diagnosis,… Read more CfP: The ‘Madwoman’ and the Institution (Leicester, April 2020)
This conference aims to reconfigure our understanding of the ‘madwoman’ in England’s long nineteenth century, asking key questions about the diagnosis,… Read more CfP: The ‘Madwoman’ and the Institution (Leicester, April 2020)
This book traces the historical roots of the problems in India’s mental health care system. It accounts for indigenous experiences… Read more Book: Lunatic Asylums in Colonial Bombay Shackled Bodies, Unchained Minds by Sarah Pinto
This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the years of decolonisation. It examines the challenges facing a new… Read more Book: Psychiatry and Decolonisation in Uganda by Yolana Pringle
This book provides an overview of a diverse array of preventive strategies relating to mental illness, and identifies their achievements… Read more Book: Preventing Mental Illness Past, Present and Future by Despo Kritsotaki, Despo, Vicky Long and Matthew Smith (Eds)
Andrew Scull‘s recently published Psychiatry and its Discontents may be of interest to H-Madness readers. An excerpt from the University of California… Read more Book: Psychiatry and its Discontents, by Andrew Scull