Colonizing Madness

Tells a forgotten story of silence, suffering, and transgressions in the colonial Pacific. This book offers new insights into a history of Fiji by entering the Pacific Islands' most enduring psychiatric institution - St Giles Psychiatric Hospital, established as Fiji's Public Lunatic Asylum in 1884.

In Colonizing Madness, Jacqueline Leckie spune o poveste uitata de tacere, suferinta si nelegiuiri in Pacificul colonial. Ofera noi perspective asupra istoriei Fiji prin intrarea in cea mai durabila institutie psihiatrica din Insulele Pacificului - Spitalul de psihiatrie St Giles - infiintat ca azil public lunatic din Fiji in 1884.