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Title:Idioms of Madness: Zomba Lunatic Asylum, Nyasaland, in the Colonial Period
Author:Vaughan, MeganISNI
Year:1983
Periodical:Journal of Southern African Studies
Volume:9
Issue:2
Period:April
Pages:218-238
Language:English
Geographic terms:Malawi
Great Britain
Subjects:colonialism
psychiatry
Health and Nutrition
History and Exploration
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/2636301
Abstract:The author has sought to describe some aspects of colonial lunacy legislation in Nyasaland, not through any belief that it was a highly influential or coherent aspect of European rule, but because it illuminates many other aspects of the colonial situation. The history of Zomba Lunatic Asylum and the legislation associated with it reflect the ambiguities, uncertainties and dangers felt by Europeans to be inherent in a situation of their own making, as well as the development of thought on their responsibility for African 'welfare'. Sections: The Institution and its rationale - The problem; European theories of African mental illness - The mad, the possessed and the bewitched - Conclusion. Notes.
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