Madness and marginality : the lives of Kenya's white insane / Will Jackson.
- Jackson, Will, 1980-
- Date:
- 2013
- Books
About this work
Description
Based on over 250 psychiatric case files, this book traces the lives of Kenya's 'white insane' to focus not on the 'great white hunters' and heroic pioneer farmers, but on those Europeans who did not manage to emulate the colonial ideal. In doing so, the book raises important new questions around deviance transgression and social control.
Publication/Creation
Manchester : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Physical description
xii, 209 pages ; 24 cm.
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-205) and index.
Contents
Approaching madness : deviant psychology in Kenya Colony -- 'No ordinary chaps' : class, gender and the licensing of transgression -- The lives of Kenya's white insane -- Battered wives and broken homes : the colonial family -- Stigma, shame and scandal : sex and mental illness -- States of emergency : psychosis and transgression.
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Subjects
- White peopleMental healthKenyaHistory20th century
- EuropeansMental healthKenyaHistory20th century
- ColonistsKenyaSocial conditions20th century
- Marginality, SocialKenyaHistory20th century
- Mentally Ill Personshistory
- White Peoplehistory
- Colonialismhistory
- History, 20th Century
- Mental Disordersethnology
- Social Control, Informalhistory
- Kenya
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicinePP.R.1759Open shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9780719088896
- 0719088895