caa a22 4500 475788834 CHVBK 20180406123706.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1009026603492 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1009026603492 Mills James Department of History, University College Northampton, Boughton Green Lane, NN27AL, Northampton, UK aut The Mad and the Past: Retrospective Diagnosis, Post-Coloniality, Discourse Analysis and the Asylum Archive [Elektronische Daten] [James Mills] Before attempting to use as a historical source the Lucknow Lunatic Asylum case notes of the British colonial period in India, it is necessary to determine which methodological approach is most viable. The approach of historians, who attempt retrospectively to diagnose the patients of the past from the clinical details of case notes, does not satisfactorily deal with the criticism that data on medical case notes is less a series of objective observations and more a product of the power relations of the period. In contrast, medical and postcolonial historians treat the information on the case notes as a set of discursive constructions rather than a series of objective observations. By tracing the discourses in operation during construction of the Lucknow case notes, this paper identifies the ways in which the notes can be read as a series of colonial and medical discursive representations rather than as a set of clinical data. Human Sciences Press, Inc., 2000 Journal of Medical Humanities Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/3(2000-09-01), 141-158 1041-3545 21:3<141 2000 21 10912 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009026603492 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009026603492 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Mills James Department of History, University College Northampton, Boughton Green Lane, NN27AL, Northampton, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Medical Humanities Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/3(2000-09-01), 141-158 1041-3545 21:3<141 2000 21 10912 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer