Colonizing madness: asylum and community in Fiji

Title: Colonizing madness: asylum and community in Fiji
Creator: Leckie, Jacqueline
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvgs09bn
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Resource Type: book
Date: 2020
Description: In Colonizing Madness Jacqueline Leckie tells a forgotten story of silence, suffering, and transgressions in the colonial Pacific. It offers new insights into a history of Fiji by entering the Pacific Islands' most enduring psychiatric institution--St Giles Psychiatric Hospital--established as Fiji's Public Lunatic Asylum in 1884. Her nuanced study reveals a microcosm of Fiji's indigenous, migrant, and colonial communities and examines how individuals and communities lived with the label of madness in an ethnically complex island society. Tracking longitudinal change from the 1880s to the present in the construction and treatment of mental disorder in Fiji, the book emphasizes the colonization of madness across and within the divides of culture, ethnicity, religion, gender, economics, and power.
Subject: mental illness; asylums; Fiji; public health
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1471261
Identifier: uon:48627
Identifier: ISBN:9780824881900
Language: eng

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