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Race et psychiatrie, de la pathologie à l’émancipation

Amériques, Afriques (1900-1960)
Race and psychiatry, from pathologies to emancipation in American and African territories (1900-1960)
Edited by Aurélia Michel
Race et psychiatrie, de la pathologie à l’émancipation
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16 x 24 cm - 206 p.
ISBN 978-2-8107-0782-9
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Should psychiatry, which emerged in the 1830s as medicine for the social body, treat those who in principle were excluded from it - namely slaves and people under colonial rule? Such a question arose at the turn of the XXth century as regards the administration of new territories that had to be “civilized” and of former slave States, at a time when governing people was more than ever informed by racial knowledge. In many places, within those empires or former empires, pathologizing race amounted to medicalizing insanity, thereby exacerbating racial categories but also altering and even deconstructing them. In a transnational space with swift dissemination of medical knowledge, political configurations together with physicians’ particular trajectories determined very diverse and even conflicting articulations between psychiatric and racial knowledge, which is what this dossier tries to unravel from experiences in Brazil, the United States and the French colonies in Africa in the first half of the XXth century.

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