Examines psychiatric epidemiology's unique evolution, conceptually and socially, within and between diverse regions and cultures, underscoring its growing influence on the biopolitics of nations and worldwide health campaigns.

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionAnne M. Lovell and Gerald M. OppenheimerPart One: Constructing Mental Health Utopias and Dystopias with Epidemiology1. From Epidemics of Terror to Landscapes of Fear: Psychiatric Epidemiology and the Psychological Reconstruction of Post-War BritainRhodri Hayward2. Self-Participatory Surveillance: The Hisayama Study on Dementia in JapanJunko Kitanaka3. A Local Epistemic History of Psychiatric Epidemiology in Brazil: Pathways of Divergence from Global EpidemiologyNaomar Almeida-FilhoPart Two: Troubling the Boundaries of Psychiatric Epidemiology4. When Risk Factor Epidemiology Met Mental Health: The Narrative of Cardiovascular Disease and the Type A Personality PatternGerald M. Oppenheimer and Richard Neugebauer5. The First Epidemiological Studies in the Transcultural Psychiatry Section at McGill UniversityEmmanuel DelillePart Three: De-centering Psychiatric Epidemiology in a Postcolonial world6. Of Fairies, Robots, Witches, and Zombies: Conceptualizing a History of Cross-Cultural Psychiatric Epidemiology in NigeriaMatthew M. Heaton7. Bringing Psychiatric Epidemiology to a Senegalese "Living Laboratory": Knowledge-Production and Erasure in the Interstices of ScienceAnne M. Lovell8. The Evolution of Community Epidemiological Studies in India: A Subaltern CritiquePratap Sharan, Ananya Mahapatra, Debjani Das, and Alok Sarin9. Taming the Tropics with Numbers: The Origins of Psychiatric Epidemiology in Colonial TaiwanHarry Yi-Jui WuSelected BibliographyContributorsIndex