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Author:   Tiffany Fawn Jones (California State University, San Bernardino, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780415886673

ISBN 10:   0415886678
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   02 February 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction 1. Prospects of a Progressive Mental Health System in South Africa Before Apartheid: Tara Hospital and Psychobiology, c1939-1948 2. The ""Disordered"" State: Government Policies and Institutions for the Administration of the Mad During Apartheid, 1948-1973 3. Patient Accounts: Life in State Institutions and Challenging Exile, 1939-1961 4. Heinous Crimes: Community and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry, and State Mental Health Services for Non-Whites, 1948-1990 5. Controlling and Challenging Sexuality: Psychiatric Struggles over Homosexuality in the 1960s-1980s 6. ""Monopoly on Madness?"": Private Long-Term Mental Institutions in South Africa, 1963-1989 7. Critics Of The System?: The Church of Scientology and the International Vilification of Psychiatry in South Africa. Conclusion"

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Tiffany Fawn Jones is an Assistant Professor of African History at California State University, San Bernardino, California. Her research interests lie in the intersection between ideas of health, race, gender, sexuality and power structures in Africa. She has published widely and is the book review editor for Notes and Records: an International Journal on Africa and the African Diaspora.

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