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Title: | Idioms of Madness: Zomba Lunatic Asylum, Nyasaland, in the Colonial Period |
Author: | Vaughan, Megan |
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. |