TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pringle, Yolana
AB  - This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the years of decolonisation. It examines the challenges facing a new generation of psychiatrists as they took over responsibility for psychiatry at the end of empire, and explores the ways psychiatric practices were tied to shifting political and development priorities, periods of instability, and a broader context of transnational and international exchange. At its heart is a question that has concerned psychiatrists globally since the mid-twentieth century: how to bridge the social and cultural gap between psychiatry and its patients? Bringing together archival research with oral histories, Yolana Pringle traces how this question came to dominate both national and international discussions on mental health care reform, including at the World Health Organization, and helped spur a culture of experimentation and creativity globally. As Pringle shows, however, the history of psychiatry during the years of decolonisation remained one of marginality, and ultimately, in the context of war and violence, the decolonisation of psychiatry was incomplete.
DO  - 10.1057/978-1-137-60095-0
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1005552
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1084375036
KW  - Health
KW  - medicine
KW  - psychiatry
KW  - postcolonial Africa
KW  - mental illness
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/9016578d-ac89-49cd-b5fc-4ca2f05c582f/1005552.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24557
PB  - Springer Nature
PP  - Basingstoke
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9781137600950
TI  - Psychiatry and Decolonisation in Ugandanull
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