लेखक: Waltraud Ernst

This book focuses on the Ranchi Indian Mental Hospital, the largest public psychiatric facility in colonial India during the 1920s and 1930s. It breaks new ground by offering unique material for a cr …

‘Mad Tales from the Raj’ is an extensively researched study of mental illness within the context of British colonialism in early nineteenth-century India. The author challenges the assumption that we …

This book offers the first systematic critical appraisal of the uses of work and work therapy in psychiatric institutions across the globe, from the late eighteenth to the end of the twentieth centur …

What role does gender play in scientific research and the development of technologies? This book provides methodological expertise, research experiences and empirical findings in the dynamic field of …

Considering cases from Europe to India, this collection brings together current critical research into the role played by racial issues in the production of medical knowledge. Confronting such contro …

This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’. Originally meaning ‘as occurring in nature’, normality has taken on significant cultural gravitas and this book recog …

…

This is an invaluable work looking into new areas relating to India’s princely states. Based on an abundance of rarely used archival material, the book sheds new light on diversities related to the p …

This is an invaluable work looking into new areas relating to India”s princely states. Based on an abundance of rarely used archival material, the book sheds new light on diversities related to the …

This is an invaluable work looking into new areas relating to India”s princely states. Based on an abundance of rarely used archival material, the book sheds new light on diversities related to the …

This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’. Originally meaning ‘as occurring in nature’, normality has taken on significant cultural gravitas and this book recog …

This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’. Originally meaning ‘as occurring in nature’, normality has taken on significant cultural gravitas and this book recog …

Considering cases from Europe to India, this collection brings together current critical research into the role played by racial issues in the production of medical knowledge. Confronting such contro …

Considering cases from Europe to India, this collection brings together current critical research into the role played by racial issues in the production of medical knowledge. Confronting such contro …

Research into ‘colonial’ or ‘imperial’ medicine has made considerable progress in recent years, whilst the study of what is usually referred to as ‘indigenous’ or ‘folk’ medicine in colonized societi …

Research into ‘colonial’ or ‘imperial’ medicine has made considerable progress in recent years, whilst the study of what is usually referred to as ‘indigenous’ or ‘folk’ medicine in colonized societi …

Since the 1980s there has been a continual engagement with the history and the place of western medicine in colonial settings and non-western societies. In relation to South Asia, research on the rol …

Since the 1980s there has been a continual engagement with the history and the place of western medicine in colonial settings and non-western societies. In relation to South Asia, research on the rol …

This book offers something new in the history of psychiatry. Within a transnational research framework, it presents original historical case studies and conceptual reflections on comparative and rela …

This book offers the first systematic critical appraisal of the uses of work and work therapy in psychiatric institutions across the globe, from the late eighteenth to the end of the twentieth centur …

This book offers an innovative engagement with the diverse histories of colonial and indigenous medicines. Engagement with different kinds of colonialism and varied indigenous socio-political culture …

This book maps changing patterns of drinking. Emphasis is laid on the connected histories of different regions and populations across the globe regarding consumption patterns, government policies, ec …

This book maps changing patterns of drinking. Emphasis is laid on the connected histories of different regions and populations across the globe regarding consumption patterns, government policies, ec …

Entgegen allen Objektivitäts- und Neutralitätsansprüchen bestehen an deutschen Hochschulen Geschlechterungleichheiten fort. Insbesondere im MINT-Bereich sind Frauen* noch immer unterrepräsentiert. De …