Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp vii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-52

Part One - Constructing Mental Health Utopias and Dystopias with Epidemiology

pp 53-54

One - From Epidemics of Terror to Landscapes of Fear: Psychiatric Epidemiology and the Psychological Reconstruction of Postwar Britain

pp 55-77

Two - Self-Participatory Surveillance: The Hisayama Study on Dementia in Japan

pp 78-103

Three - A Local Epistemic History of Psychiatric Epidemiology in Brazil: Pathways of Divergence from Global Epidemiology

pp 104-136

Part Two - Troubling the Boundaries of Psychiatric Epidemiology

pp 137-138

Four - When Risk Factor Epidemiology Met Mental Health: The Narrative of Cardiovascular Disease and the Type A Personality Pattern

pp 139-166

Five - The First Epidemiological Studies in the Transcultural Psychiatry Section at McGill University

pp 167-190

Part Three - Decentering Psychiatric Epidemiology in a Postcolonial World

pp 191-192

Six - Of Fairies, Robots, Witches, and Zombies: Conceptualizing a History of Cross-Cultural Psychiatric Epidemiology in Nigeria

pp 193-213

Seven - Bringing Psychiatric Epidemiology to a Senegalese “Living Laboratory”: Knowledge-Production and Erasure in the Interstices of Science

pp 214-249

Eight - The Evolution of Community Epidemiological Studies in India: A Subaltern Critique

pp 250-282

Nine - Taming the Tropics with Numbers: The Origins of Psychiatric Epidemiology in Colonial Taiwan

pp 283-306

Selected Bibliography

pp 307-318

Notes on Contributors

pp 319-322

Index

pp 323-332