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Author:
Swartz, Sally. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2015082458
Title:
Homeless wanderers : movement and mental illness in the Cape Colony in the nineteenth century / Sally Swartz.
Publisher:
UCT Press,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
xvi, 224 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cm
Subject:
Valkenberg Mental Hospital.
Asylums--Cape of Good Hope--Cape of Good Hope--History.
Mental health services--Cape of Good Hope--Cape of Good Hope--History.
Mentally ill--History.--South Africa--History.
Psychiatry--Cape of Good Hope--Cape of Good Hope--History.
Psychiatric hospitals--South Africa--History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Watching the beetle: motion, emotion and the insane -- Insane disposals: patterns of care in British colonial asylums -- Unsafe custody: in transit to the asylum -- Nights spent walking: insanity and Cape colonial families -- All at sea: the insane and the colony's borders -- Other migrations: insane Jews in the colonial diaspora -- Home and away: insanity and setter colonialism.
ISBN:
1775820823
9781775820826
OCLC:
(OCoLC)911267301
LCCN:
2015453366
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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