An Impossible Inheritance

"This creative, sophisticated book is a poignant love song to the attempt to treat madness differently--to the great ambition of Collomb's hospital in Dakar, and the loss of its initial vision. It reminds us how hard the task is and how much work there is to do." --T. M. Luhrmann, author, Of Two Minds "Katie Kilroy-Marac has written a splendidly original and thoroughly researched study of a famous psychiatric clinic in Senegal. The book is an important contribution to the study of the encounter between Western psychiatry and the Global South, and deserves to obtain a wide readership." -- Andrew Scull, author of Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine