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Decolonizing Global Mental Health
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The psychiatrization of the majority world
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Artikel-Nr:
9781848721609
Veröffentl:
2013
Erscheinungsdatum:
11.11.2013
Seiten:
178
Autor:
China Mills
Gewicht:
247 g
Format:
216x136x15 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
China Mills is a researcher at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford. Her research interests span interdisciplinary approaches to exploring the interconnections between Global Mental Health, psychiatry, the pharmaceutical industry and colonialism.
This book offers a critical post-colonial reading of the newly emerging arena of global mental health; with particular focus on psychology's and psychiatry's encounters with distress or 'mental illness' in low-income countries.
Introduction De-familiarising GMH: a methodology of Encounters 1. Making Mental Health a Reality for All 2. 'Harvesting Despair' -Suicide Notes to the State and Psychotropics in the post 3. Educating, Marketing, Mongering 4. The Turn / The Look: Interpellating the Mad Colonial Subject 5. 'Necessary evils': When torture is treatment and violence is normal 6. Sly Normality: Between Quiescence and Revolt 7. Decolonising Global Mental Health