Madness and Colonization: Psychiatry in the British and French empires, 1800-1962.

Journal of Social History | December 22, 2001| | Copyright

A recent intersection of two historiographical strains points to a promising new direction for social and cultural history. Given the pervasive influence of Michel Foucault and Edward Said on much historical research since the 1970s, it is no surprise that several historians have drawn their attention to a topic that brings some of Foucault's and Said's most provocative contributions together: the problem of madness and its treatment in European colonies. (1) Scholars in British and French colonial history have in the last decade produced important works that revise our ...

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