'Behaving Wildly': Diagnoses Of Lunacy Among Indigenous Persons In Western Australia, 1870–1914

'Behaving Wildly': Diagnoses Of Lunacy Among Indigenous Persons In Western Australia, 1870–1914 Philippa Martyr, 2010   How did the diagnosis and treatment of lunacy in Western Australia intersect with Indigenous control by whites, and attitudes to Indigenous Western Australians in general, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Historical analyses of the pre-1960s period are fragmentary, but there seems to have been about 30 cases of Indigenous persons being charged or...

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