Madmen and Specialists
Anthony Appiah, 7 September 1995
Colonial Psychiatry and the ‘African Mind’
by Jock McCulloch.
Cambridge, 185 pp., £35, January 1995,0 521 45330 5 Show More
by Jock McCulloch.
Cambridge, 185 pp., £35, January 1995,
“... you will occasionally have seen people half-clothed in filthy rags, hair matted with the red-brown dust thrown up from the laterite earth, wandering the streets largely unmolested; talking, perhaps, to themselves; begging sometimes; or scratching through rubbish heaps looking for something to eat. When I was a child in Kumasi we were taught to fear these ... ”