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Neurasthenia at Mengo Hospital, Uganda: A case study in psychiatry and a diagnosis, 1906–50

This article uses a case-study approach to examine the complex and contradictory nature of diagnoses like neurasthenia in colonial Africa. Drawing on the case notes of European and African patients diagnosed with neurasthenia at the Church Missionary Society's Mengo Hospital, Uganda, it argues...

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Autor principal: Pringle, Yolana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Routledge 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4894077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27335533
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2015.1123975