Surfacing Up: Psychiatry and Social Order in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1908-1968

Most significantly, it adds to the sites that scholars have explored by presenting a history of psychiatry in Southern Rhodesia, or as the author somewhat anachronistically calls it, "colonial Zimbabwe," through an account of the Ingutsheni asylum near BuIawayo. [...]it offers insight into the clinical encounter at Ingutsheni through a close reading of hundreds of patients' case files. The book thus highlights such important social phenomena as labor, gender, law, and religion in addition to the organization and practices of the clinic in its linking of psychiatry and empire.