Insanity, Race and Colonialism: Managing Mental Disorder in the Post-Emancipation British Caribbean, 1838-1914

by Leonard Smith

Book Overview

Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer serious material deprivation and racial oppression. This book examines the management and treatment of those who became insane, in the period until 1914. The exposure of deplorable conditions and flagrant abuses in the public lunatic asylum in Kingston, Jamaica, in the late 1850s exemplified the defective...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137028629
• ISBN13: 9781137028624
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"