By Anne M. Lovell, Gerald M. Oppenheimer, Rhodri Hayward, Junko Kitanaka, Naomar Monteiro de Almeida-Filho
Psychiatric epidemiology, like the epidemiology of cancer, heart disease, or AIDS, contributes increasingly to shaping the biopolitics of nations and worldwide health campaigns. Despite the field’s importance, this is the first volume of historical scholarship addressing psychiatric epidemiology. It seeks to comprehensively trace the development of the discipline and the mobilization of its constructs, methods, and tools to further social ends. It is through this double lens&emdash;conceptual and social&emdash;that it envisions the history of psychiatric epidemiology. Furthermore, its chapters constitute elements for that history as a global phenomenon, formed by multiple approaches. Those numerous historical paths have not resulted in a uniform disciplinary field based on a common paradigm, as happened arguably in the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease and cancer, but in a plurality of psychiatric epidemiologies driven by different intellectual questions, political strategies, reformist ideals, national cultures, colonial experiences, international influences, and social control objectives. When examined together, the chapters depict an uneven global development of epidemiologies formed within distinct political-cultural regions but influenced by the transnational circulation and selective uptake of concepts, techniques, and expertise. These moved through multidirectional pathways between and within the Global North and South. Authored by historians, anthropologists, and psychiatrists, chapters trace this complex history, focusing on Brazil, Nigeria, Senegal, India, Taiwan, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada, as well as multicountry networks.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionAnne M. Lovell and Gerald M. OppenheimerPart One: Constructing Mental Health Utopias and Dystopias with Epidemiology1. From Epidemics of Terror to Landscapes of Fear: Psychiatric Epidemiology and the Psychological Reconstruction of Post-War BritainRhodri Hayward2. Self-Participatory Surveillance: The Hisayama Study on Dementia in JapanJunko Kitanaka3. A Local Epistemic History of Psychiatric Epidemiology in Brazil: Pathways of Divergence from Global EpidemiologyNaomar Almeida-FilhoPart Two: Troubling the Boundaries of Psychiatric Epidemiology4. When Risk Factor Epidemiology Met Mental Health: The Narrative of Cardiovascular Disease and the Type A Personality PatternGerald M. Oppenheimer and Richard Neugebauer5. The First Epidemiological Studies in the Transcultural Psychiatry Section at McGill UniversityEmmanuel DelillePart Three: De-centering Psychiatric Epidemiology in a Postcolonial world6. Of Fairies, Robots, Witches, and Zombies: Conceptualizing a History of Cross-Cultural Psychiatric Epidemiology in NigeriaMatthew M. Heaton7. Bringing Psychiatric Epidemiology to a Senegalese “Living Laboratory”: Knowledge-Production and Erasure in the Interstices of ScienceAnne M. Lovell8. The Evolution of Community Epidemiological Studies in India: A Subaltern CritiquePratap Sharan, Ananya Mahapatra, Debjani Das, and Alok Sarin9. Taming the Tropics with Numbers: The Origins of Psychiatric Epidemiology in Colonial TaiwanHarry Yi-Jui WuSelected BibliographyContributorsIndex

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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Rochester Press (May 26, 2022)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Digital eBook ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1648250394
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1648250392
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