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Madness in the Family explores how colonial families coped with insanity through a trans-colonial study of the relationships between families and public colonia

In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation’s last segregated asylums,

Schizophrenia has long puzzled researchers in the fields of psychiatric medicine and anthropology. Why is it that the rates of developing schizophrenia—long t

The focus of this book is on the government of prisoners with mental health problems in England and Wales over the last twenty-five years. The wider context and