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Bio:
Nana Osei Quarshie is Assistant Professor in the Program in the History of Science and Medicine at Yale University, where he is also affiliated with the Department of Anthropology and the Yale School of Medicine. An anthropologist and historian by training, Quarshie examines the relationship among mental healing, political expulsions, immigration, and urban belonging in West Africa since the seventeenth century. His research has been funded by the Chateaubriand Fellowship, the Social Science Research Council’s International Dissertation Research Fellowship, the University of Michigan, and Yale University. Among other venues, Quarshie’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Comparative Studies in Society and History, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Politique Africaine, Psychopathologie Africaine and Somatosphere. He is currently revising his first monograph, An African Pharmakon: Psychiatry and the Mind Politic of Modern Ghana.
Publications
Articles (Peer Review)
Forthcoming
“Spiritual Pawning: “Mad Slaves” and Mental Healing in Atlantic-era West Africa,” Comparative Studies in Society and History.
Forthcoming
“The Archives of False Prophets: Inventing the Future in a West African Psychiatric Hospital” in Psychiatric Contours and New African Histories of Madness. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Eds. Hubertus Büschel and Nancy Rose Hunt.
2022
“Psychiatry on a Shoestring: West Africa and the Global Movements of Deinstitutionalization,”
Bulletin of the History of Medicine 96, no. 2: 237 – 265.
https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2022.0023
2020
2015
“Confinement in the Lunatic Asylums of the Gold Coast from 1887-1906,” Psychopathologie Africaine (36) 2: 191 – 226.
Articles (Editorial Review)
2022
« L’expulsion en masse comme outil d’exclusion intérieure : raids de police et emprisonnement des migrants d’Afrique occidentale au Ghana, 1969–1974 » dans
L’Afrique en Prisons. Lyon, France: ENS Editions. Édité par Frederic le Marcis et Marie Morelle. (French translation of “Mass Expulsion as Internal Exclusion” by Cadenza).
https://doi.org/10.4000/books.enseditions.40895
2021
“Mass Expulsion as Internal Exclusion: Police Raids and the Imprisonment of West African Immigrants in Ghana, 1969 – 1974” in
Confinement, Punishment, and Prisons in Africa. London, UK and New York, NY: Routledge Press. Edited by Julia Hornberger, Frederic le Marcis and Marie Morelle.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003009627-5
Book Reviews
2020
Interviews
2021
