Article ID: CBB263655708

Public mental health care in colonial Lesotho: themes emerging from archival material, 1918–35 (2021)

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This paper identifies some of the themes that emerge from a study of official archival records from 1918 to 1934 on the subject of mental health in colonial Lesotho. They include: difficulties experienced by colonial medical doctors in diagnosing and treating mental illnesses, given the state of medical knowledge in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; impact of shortage of financial and other resources on the establishment and operation of medical services, especially mental health care; convergence of social order, financial and medical concerns as influences on colonial approaches to mental health care; and the question of whether Basotho colonial society saw institutionalization of their relatives as ‘hospitalization’ or ‘imprisonment’. Two case studies are presented as preliminary explorations of some of the themes.

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Authors & Contributors
Hilton, Claire
Musci, Leonardo
Valeriano, Annacarla
Simic, Ivan
Wallis, Jennifer
Verani, Ana Carolina
Concepts
Mental disorders and diseases
Psychiatric hospitals
Psychiatry
Medicine and society
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Public health
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
Places
England
Italy
Yugoslavia
Georgia (U.S.)
Québec (Canada)
London (England)
Institutions
National Health Service (Great Britain)
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