{"product_id":"psychiatric-contours-nancy-rose-hunt-9781478026112","title":"Psychiatric Contours: New African Histories of Madness","description":"\u003ci\u003ePsychiatric Contours\u003c\/i\u003e investigates new histories of psychiatry, derangement, and agitated subjectivities in colonial and decolonizing Africa. The volume lets the multivalent term \u003ci\u003emadness\u003c\/i\u003e broaden perception, well beyond the psychiatric. Many chapters detect the mad or the psychiatric in unhinged persons, frantic collectives, and distressing situations. Others investigate individuals suffering from miscategorization. A key Foucauldian word, \u003ci\u003evivacity\u003c\/i\u003e, illuminates how madness aligns with pathology, creativity, turbulence, and psychopolitics. The archives, patient-authored or not, speak to furies and fantasies inside asylums, colonial institutions, decolonizing missions, and slave ships. The frayed edges of politicized deliria open up the senses and optics of psychiatry's history in Africa far beyond clinical spaces and classification. The volume also proposes fresh concepts, notably the vernacular, to suggest how to work with emic clues in a granular fashion and telescope the psychiatric within histories of madness. With chapters stretching across much of ex-British and ex-French colonial Africa, \u003ci\u003ePsychiatric Contours\u003c\/i\u003e attends to the words, autobiographies, and hallucinations of the stigmatized and afflicted as well as of the powerful. Expatriate psychiatrists with cameras, prying authorities, fearful missionaries, and colonial anthropologists enter these readings beside patients, asylums, and boarding schools via research on possession \"hysteria\" and schizophrenia. In brief, this book demonstrates novel ways of writing not only medical history but all subaltern and global histories. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contributors. Hubertus B?schel, Rapha?l Gallien, Matthew M. Heaton, Richard H?lzl, Nancy Rose Hunt, Richard C. Keller, Sloan Mahone, Nana Osei Quarshie, Jonathan Sadowsky, Romain Tiquet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nancy Rose Hunt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478026111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478026112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/10\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Nancy Rose Hunt","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46545819894015,"sku":"9781478026112","price":109.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c5d16a7a-e001-4c39-9c3a-75b2ececed94.jpg?v=1738183420","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/psychiatric-contours-nancy-rose-hunt-9781478026112","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}