Mandatory Madness
Colonial Psychiatry and Mental Illness in British Mandate Palestine
Seiten
2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-43038-8 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-43038-8 (ISBN)
Bringing together Middle East studies, histories of empire, and the medical humanities, Mandatory Madness offers an innovative and deeply researched new social and cultural history of Palestine before 1948, and a rethinking of the history and archives of psychiatry from a non-Western context under British colonial rule.
Mandatory Madness offers a new perspective on a pivotal period in the history of modern Palestine, by putting mental illness and the psychiatric encounters it engendered at the heart of the story. Through a careful and creative reading of an eclectic mix of archival and published material, Mandatory Madness reveals how a range of actors - British colonial officials, Zionist health workers, Arab doctors and nurses, and Palestinian families - responded to mental illness in the decades before 1948. Rather than a concern of European Jewish psychiatric experts alone, questions around the causes, nature, and treatment of mental illness were negotiated across diverse and sometimes surprising sites in mandate Palestine: not only in underfunded and overcrowded government mental hospitals and private Jewish clinics, certainly, but also in family homes and neighbourhood streets, in colonial courtrooms and prisons and census offices, and in the itineraries of shaykhs and patients alike as they crossed newly drawn borders within the Levant. Bringing together histories of medicine, colonialism, and the modern Middle East, Mandatory Madness highlights how the seemingly personal and private matter of mental illness generated distinctive forms of entanglement: between colonial state and society, Arabs and Jews, and Palestine and the wider region.
Mandatory Madness offers a new perspective on a pivotal period in the history of modern Palestine, by putting mental illness and the psychiatric encounters it engendered at the heart of the story. Through a careful and creative reading of an eclectic mix of archival and published material, Mandatory Madness reveals how a range of actors - British colonial officials, Zionist health workers, Arab doctors and nurses, and Palestinian families - responded to mental illness in the decades before 1948. Rather than a concern of European Jewish psychiatric experts alone, questions around the causes, nature, and treatment of mental illness were negotiated across diverse and sometimes surprising sites in mandate Palestine: not only in underfunded and overcrowded government mental hospitals and private Jewish clinics, certainly, but also in family homes and neighbourhood streets, in colonial courtrooms and prisons and census offices, and in the itineraries of shaykhs and patients alike as they crossed newly drawn borders within the Levant. Bringing together histories of medicine, colonialism, and the modern Middle East, Mandatory Madness highlights how the seemingly personal and private matter of mental illness generated distinctive forms of entanglement: between colonial state and society, Arabs and Jews, and Palestine and the wider region.
Chris Sandal-Wilson is a Lecturer in Medical History at the University of Exeter. He holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Cambridge and was previously a Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London.
Introduction; I: 1. Psychiatry in Palestine between the Ottomans and the British; 2. Enumerating insanity: pathologies, translations, and the census; II: 3. Petitions, families, and pathways to the asylum; 4. Insanity before the courts: defining abnormality, punishing normalcy; 5. Getting in and getting out of the criminal lunatic section; III: 6. Investing in psychiatric institutions and expertise into the 1940s; 7. Treating the mentally ill: work, drugs, and electricity; Epilogue: partitions and afterlives.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.05.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Global Middle East |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-43038-6 / 1009430386 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-43038-8 / 9781009430388 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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