'Behaving Wildly': Diagnoses of Lunacy among Indigenous Persons in Western Australia, 1870-1914

Martyr, Philippa

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“…Few studies have explored records of Aboriginal patients in Australia's earliest lunatic asylums (Dunk, 2019;Martyr, 2011). In NSW, in order to find the earliest available record of an Aboriginal Australian patient, we searched extant patient lists, medical records and burial lists from NSW's first and second lunatic asylums at Castle Hill (1811-26) and Liverpool (1826-39).…”

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“…Alternatively, some historians have focused on particular areas of interest. Turnbull (2017: 33-70) has written about how Aboriginal skulls and skeletons were used for scientific study in nineteenth-century Europe, and Martyr (2011) has explored the application of psychiatric diagnosis to Aboriginal patients in Freemantle Lunatic Asylum from 1870. Chronicling the first 100 years of Aboriginal Australian mental health is challenging, because during the nineteenth century Aboriginal peoples' symptoms of mental ill health were seldom interpreted with reference to British conceptualizations (Dunk, 2019: 13).…”

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Aboriginal Australian mental health during the first 100 years of colonization, 1788–1888: a historical review of nineteenth-century documents

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Past histories charting interactions between British healthcare and Aboriginal Australians have tended to be dominated by broad histological themes such as invasion and colonization. While such descriptions have been vital to modernization and truth telling in Australian historical discourse, this paper investigates the nineteenth century through the modern cultural lens of mental health. We reviewed primary documents, including colonial diaries, church sermons, newspaper articles, medical and burial records, letters, government documents, conference speeches and anthropological journals. Findings revealed six overlapping fields which applied British ideas about mental health to Aboriginal Australians during the nineteenth century. They included military invasion, religion, law, psychological systems, lunatic asylums, and anthropology.

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Aboriginal Australian mental health during the first 100 years of colonization, 1788–1888: a historical review of nineteenth-century documents

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“…63 Claremont Mental Hospital had always held a broad ethnic mix of patients. 64 But while Western Australia's general population was three-quarters Australasian-born, only around half its mental hospital population was Australasian-born (Table 1). What brought the local-born average down were the male admissions: only 47% of male admissions were born in Australasia (compared to 62% of female admissions).…”

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Having a Clean Up? Deporting Lunatic Migrants from Western Australia, 1924-1939

Martyr¹

2011

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Between 1924 and 1939, over 100 immigrants were deported from Western Australian mental hospitals. These deported ‘lunatics’ fell within the 3‐year (and later 5‐year) window between arrival and becoming ‘a charge on the state’. This meant that they could be deported by the Australian Commonwealth government under Section 8a of the amended Immigration Restriction Act. So who were these lunatic migrants? Were they already unwell and deliberately encouraged to migrate to Australia by unscrupulous foreign governments? Were they simply people for whom the pressures of life in an unfamiliar culture, in the middle of a global economic depression, became too much? By examining these deportees in more detail, and looking at factors such as their ethnic background and diagnosis, some underlying reasons as to why these individuals were targeted for deportation become apparent.

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“…. 심장병, 비만, 치매, 당뇨, 피로 등 의 만성질환에 대한 연구도 다수 등장했다 (Timmermann, 2012;Parr, 2014;Tuchman, 2015;Rasmussen, 2018;Blayney, 2019;Fallon, 2019 (Gentilcore, 2016;Savelli, 2012;Chavigny, 2014;Black, 2017;Mills and Adderley, 2017;Herzberg, 2017;Edman, 2020;Karibo, 2020 (Martyr, 2011;Mauger, 2012;Loughran, 2012;Wright, Jacklin, Themeles, 2013;Slijkhuis and Oosterhuis, 2014;Cox and Marland, 2015;Blair, 2016;Parhi and Pietikainen, 2017;Millard, 2017;Cox and Marland, 2018;Adams, 2019;Wake, 2019;Ramos, 2019;Nuriddin, 2019;Dwyer, 2019;Schöhl and Hess, 2019;Marland, 2019;Tomes and Jones, 2019;Tomes, 2020 했다(Bavins, Marland, and Tomes, 2016;Van Andel, 2016;Cavallo, 2016;Baschin, 2016;Jones, 2016; (Newton, 2011;Lloyd, 2012;Geist, 2012;Carstirs, 2014;…”

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A Historiographical Review of the History of Western Medicine, 2011–2020 The Diversification of Subject Matter and the Search for a New Methodology

Lee

2020

Korean J Med Hist

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In recent decades, the history of medicine has seen additional experimentation with the changing understanding of the relationship between medicine and society, especially with the emergence of a knowledge-and information-based society and globalization. Furthermore, historians have attempted to establish the value of the history of medicine in response to changing perceptions of medicine and history in the twenty-first century. Their efforts have vitalized the field of medical history by treating it as a useful lens for observing medicine's past as well as formulating critical questions about its present.

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'Behaving Wildly': Diagnoses of Lunacy among Indigenous Persons in Western Australia, 1870-1914

Cited by 9 publications

References 10 publications

Aboriginal Australian mental health during the first 100 years of colonization, 1788–1888: a historical review of nineteenth-century documents

Aboriginal Australian mental health during the first 100 years of colonization, 1788–1888: a historical review of nineteenth-century documents

Having a Clean Up? Deporting Lunatic Migrants from Western Australia, 1924-1939

A Historiographical Review of the History of Western Medicine, 2011–2020 The Diversification of Subject Matter and the Search for a New Methodology

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