Article ID: CBB437532103

Aboriginal Australian mental health during the first 100 years of colonization, 1788–1888: a historical review of nineteenth-century documents (2022)

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Past histories charting interactions between British healthcare and Aboriginal Australians have tended to be dominated by broad histological themes such as invasion and colonization. While such descriptions have been vital to modernization and truth telling in Australian historical discourse, this paper investigates the nineteenth century through the modern cultural lens of mental health. We reviewed primary documents, including colonial diaries, church sermons, newspaper articles, medical and burial records, letters, government documents, conference speeches and anthropological journals. Findings revealed six overlapping fields which applied British ideas about mental health to Aboriginal Australians during the nineteenth century. They included military invasion, religion, law, psychological systems, lunatic asylums, and anthropology.

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Authors & Contributors
Coleborne, Catharine
Taylor, N. A. J.
Leckie, Jacqueline
Davison, Sophie
Ashraf Wani, Mohd
Pinto, Sarah Ann
Concepts
Colonialism
Mental disorders and diseases
Psychiatry
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Great Britain, colonies
Psychiatric hospitals
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
20th century, late
Early modern
Places
Australia
New Zealand
India
Bombay (India)
Uganda
Nigeria
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