Sloan Mahone
Biographic Data
| ID | 229195 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sloan Mahone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sloan |
| FAMILY NAME | Mahone |
| SIGNATURE | MAHONE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2250-6427 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Feasibility and impact of a patient support group care model on diabetes and hypertension care in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya
Background A support group care model including self-financing is a promising strategy to improve care for patients with diabetes or hypertension in resource-constrained settings.Objectives We investigated the uptake, feasibility, and impact of a self-financing patient support group care model on cardiometabolic parameters among adult patients with uncontrolled diabetes or hypertension in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya.Methods A two-group…
Casting out Anger
Sloan Mahone, “Casting out Anger: Stress, Possession, and the Everyday in Taita, Kenya”: This chapter considers Taita, in Kenya’s Coast Province (now Taita-Taveta county), as a case study, presenting a unique snapshot of a more complicated colonial encounter. For a brief period in the 1950s, the isolated Taita Hills attracted the interests of the colonial government, two anthropologists from Cambridge, and a Canadian psychiatrist and amateur phot…
Attitudes and perceptions towards epilepsy in an onchocerciasis-endemic region of Tanzania
Despite high awareness of epilepsy, there is insufficient understanding, negative attitudes, and perceptions, including misconceptions and stigma about this neurologic condition. Community-based education programmes are essential for promoting proper healthcare-seeking behaviour and dispelling myths
Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum
George Floyd's death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the United States and elsewhere. Intense demonstrations around the world followed. Within literary studies, the demonstrations accelerated the scrutiny of the literary curriculum, the need to diversify the curriculum, and the need to incorporate more Black writers. Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum is a major collection that aims to address th…
Hat on - hat off
In 1957, Kenya's government psychiatrist and director of the colony's Mathari Mental Hospital travelled to western Kenya to investigate the practice of trepanation among the Gusii people in Kisii District. Applied to relieve pressure on the brain by scraping away a portion of the skull with a hooked knife, trepanation was exceptionally rare by the 20th century, but remained common in Kisii where the operations are conducted by a group of skilled …
Surfacing Up
Reviewed by: Surfacing Up: Psychiatry and Social Order in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1908-1968 Sloan Mahone Lynette A. Jackson . Surfacing Up: Psychiatry and Social Order in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1908-1968. Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. xv + 230 pp. Ill. $55.00, £31.50 (cloth, 0-8014-4310-5); $24.95, £14.50 (paperbound, 0-8014-8940-7). This study emerges as part of a growing subfield within the history…
The Psychology of Rebellion
This article opens with a retelling of colonial accounts of the ‘mania of 1911’, which took place in the Kamba region of Kenya Colony. The story of this ‘psychic epidemic’ and others like it would be recounted over the years as evidence depicting the predisposition of Africans to episodic mass hysteria. This use of medical and psychological language in primarily non-medical contexts serves to highlight the intellectual and political roles psychia…
The Psychology of Rebellion
This article opens with a retelling of colonial accounts of the ‘mania of 1911’, which took place in the Kamba region of Kenya Colony. The story of this ‘psychic epidemic’ and others like it would be recounted over the years as evidence depicting the predisposition of Africans to episodic mass hysteria. This use of medical and psychological language in primarily non-medical contexts serves to highlight the intellectual and political roles psychia…
The Psychology of Rebellion
This article opens with a retelling of colonial accounts of the ‘mania of 1911’, which took place in the Kamba region of Kenya Colony. The story of this ‘psychic epidemic’ and others like it would be recounted over the years as evidence depicting the predisposition of Africans to episodic mass hysteria. This use of medical and psychological language in primarily non-medical contexts serves to highlight the intellectual and political roles psychia…
Surfacing Up
Reviewed by: Surfacing Up: Psychiatry and Social Order in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1908-1968 Sloan Mahone Lynette A. Jackson . Surfacing Up: Psychiatry and Social Order in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1908-1968. Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. xv + 230 pp. Ill. $55.00, £31.50 (cloth, 0-8014-4310-5); $24.95, £14.50 (paperbound, 0-8014-8940-7). This study emerges as part of a growing subfield within the history…
Hat on - hat off
In 1957, Kenya's government psychiatrist and director of the colony's Mathari Mental Hospital travelled to western Kenya to investigate the practice of trepanation among the Gusii people in Kisii District. Applied to relieve pressure on the brain by scraping away a portion of the skull with a hooked knife, trepanation was exceptionally rare by the 20th century, but remained common in Kisii where the operations are conducted by a group of skilled …
Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum
George Floyd's death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the United States and elsewhere. Intense demonstrations around the world followed. Within literary studies, the demonstrations accelerated the scrutiny of the literary curriculum, the need to diversify the curriculum, and the need to incorporate more Black writers. Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum is a major collection that aims to address th…
Casting out Anger
Sloan Mahone, “Casting out Anger: Stress, Possession, and the Everyday in Taita, Kenya”: This chapter considers Taita, in Kenya’s Coast Province (now Taita-Taveta county), as a case study, presenting a unique snapshot of a more complicated colonial encounter. For a brief period in the 1950s, the isolated Taita Hills attracted the interests of the colonial government, two anthropologists from Cambridge, and a Canadian psychiatrist and amateur phot…
Attitudes and perceptions towards epilepsy in an onchocerciasis-endemic region of Tanzania
Despite high awareness of epilepsy, there is insufficient understanding, negative attitudes, and perceptions, including misconceptions and stigma about this neurologic condition. Community-based education programmes are essential for promoting proper healthcare-seeking behaviour and dispelling myths
Feasibility and impact of a patient support group care model on diabetes and hypertension care in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya
Background A support group care model including self-financing is a promising strategy to improve care for patients with diabetes or hypertension in resource-constrained settings.Objectives We investigated the uptake, feasibility, and impact of a self-financing patient support group care model on cardiometabolic parameters among adult patients with uncontrolled diabetes or hypertension in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya.Methods A two-group…
Medicine (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Psychiatry (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anger (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work)