Article ID: CBB502970872

Race, alcohol and general paralysis: Emil Kraepelin’s comparative psychiatry and his trips to Java (1904) and North America (1925) (2018)

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This article examines Emil Kraepelin’s notion of comparative psychiatry and relates it to the clinical research he conducted at psychiatric hospitals in South-East Asia (1904) and the USA (1925). It argues that his research fits awkwardly within the common historiographic narratives of colonial psychiatry. It also disputes claims that his work can be interpreted meaningfully as the fons et origio of transcultural psychiatry. Instead, it argues that his comparative psychiatry was part of a larger neo-Lamarckian project of clinical epidemiology and was thus primarily a reflection of his own long-standing diagnostic practices and research agendas. However, the hospitals in Java and America exposed the institutional constraints and limitations of those practices and agendas.

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Authors & Contributors
Babini, Valeria Paola
Coleborne, Catharine
Cottebrune, Anne
Decker, Hannah S.
Edington, Claire Ellen
Engstrom, Eric J.
Journals
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
History of Psychiatry
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Comparative Studies in Society and History
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
History of Psychology
Publishers
New York University
Oxford University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Springer
Concepts
Psychiatry
Mental disorders and diseases
Clinical psychology
Colonialism
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Diagnosis
People
Kraepelin, Emil
James, William
Janet, Pierre
Kehl, Renato Ferraz
Rüdin, Ernst
Spitzer, Robert L.
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Places
Germany
United States
Brazil
Java (Indonesia)
Munich (Germany)
Australia
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