Description
Mandatory Madness investigates the complex intersection of colonialism, medicine, and psychiatry in British Mandate Palestine. Chris Sandal-wilson provides a critical analysis of how psychiatric institutions and practices emerged under colonial administration, examining the ways colonial authorities conceptualized and treated mental illness among the Palestinian population.
The book explores the institutional frameworks, medical discourses, and power dynamics that characterized mental health care during this period. By situating psychiatry within the broader colonial context, the work reveals how medical practices both reflected and reinforced colonial hierarchies and assumptions about mental illness, race, and civilization.
Part of the Global Middle East series, this scholarly work contributes to postcolonial histories of medicine and offers insights into how Western psychiatric models were imposed and adapted in non-Western contexts.
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