“Madness” in Singapore : perception and treatment towards the other (late 19th to mid-20th century)

• Main Author: Wang, Jing Wen
• Other Authors: Goh Geok Yian
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::History
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/76604
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper, I examine how societal perception and medical treatment towards mental illness from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century weighed under colonial influences. Existing historiography of mental illness in colonial Singapore has focused on institutional development, dismissing...