Madness and marginality : the lives of Kenya's white insane /

Madness and marginality : the lives of Kenya's white insane /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Jackson, Will.
Imprint:	Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Description:	xii, 209 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in imperialism Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
Subject:	Whites -- Mental health -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century. Europeans -- Mental health -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century. Colonists -- Kenya -- Social conditions -- 20th century. Marginality, Social -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century. Marginality, Social. Kenya. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9337673

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ISBN:	9780719088896 0719088895
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

General Editor's introduction
Acknowledgements
Note on terms
Introduction
1. Approaching madness: deviant psychology in Kenya Colony
2. 'No ordinary chaps': class, gender and the licensing of transgression
3. The lives of Kenya's white insane
4. Battered wives and broken homes: the colonial family
5. Stigma, shame and scandal: sex and mental illness
6. States of emergency: psychosis and transgression
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index