{"product_id":"mandatory-madness-colonial-psychiatry-and-mental-illness-in-british-mandate-palestine-paperback-softback-9781009430388","title":"Mandatory Madness; Colonial Psychiatry and Mental Illness in British Mandate Palestine (Paperback \/ softback) 9781009430388","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMandatory Madness\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eColonial Psychiatry and Mental Illness in British Mandate Palestine\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMandatory Madness offers an unprecedented social and cultural history of colonial psychiatry in Palestine under British rule before 1948.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChris Sandal-Wilson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009430388, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 May 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e360 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.521 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Sandal-Wilson employs a wide array of sources to shed light on the complicated history of psychiatric care in Mandatory Palestine … By widening the lens to include diverse sources and actors, Sandal-Wilson has created a compelling book that provides important and unique insights into life in Mandatory Palestine … Highly recommended for scholars of British Mandate Palestine, the Middle East, Israeli-Palestinian relations, the history of medicine, colonial medicine, and the history of psychiatry, especially in colonial settings.' J. Rankin, Choice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMandatory Madness offers a new perspective on a pivotal period in the history of modern Palestine, by putting mental illness and the psychiatric encounters it engendered at the heart of the story. Through a careful and creative reading of an eclectic mix of archival and published material, Mandatory Madness reveals how a range of actors - British colonial officials, Zionist health workers, Arab doctors and nurses, and Palestinian families - responded to mental illness in the decades before 1948. Rather than a concern of European Jewish psychiatric experts alone, questions around the causes, nature, and treatment of mental illness were negotiated across diverse and sometimes surprising sites in mandate Palestine: not only in underfunded and overcrowded government mental hospitals and private Jewish clinics, certainly, but also in family homes and neighbourhood streets, in colonial courtrooms and prisons and census offices, and in the itineraries of shaykhs and patients alike as they crossed newly drawn borders within the Levant. Bringing together histories of medicine, colonialism, and the modern Middle East, Mandatory Madness highlights how the seemingly personal and private matter of mental illness generated distinctive forms of entanglement: between colonial state and society, Arabs and Jews, and Palestine and the wider region.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e I: 1. Psychiatry in Palestine between the Ottomans and the British\u003cbr\u003e 2. Enumerating insanity: pathologies, translations, and the census\u003cbr\u003e II: 3. Petitions, families, and pathways to the asylum\u003cbr\u003e 4. Insanity before the courts: defining abnormality, punishing normalcy\u003cbr\u003e 5. Getting in and getting out of the criminal lunatic section\u003cbr\u003e III: 6. Investing in psychiatric institutions and expertise into the 1940s\u003cbr\u003e 7. Treating the mentally ill: work, drugs, and electricity\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: partitions and afterlives.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Middle Eastern history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Middle Eastern history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Middle%20Eastern%20history%20%5BHBJF1%5D%22\"\u003eHBJF1\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52173727990040,"sku":"9781009430388","price":26.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009430388i.jpg?v=1781168501","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/mandatory-madness-colonial-psychiatry-and-mental-illness-in-british-mandate-palestine-paperback-softback-9781009430388","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}