Dr. Sloan Mahone

Biography

Sloan Mahone is an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford in the Faculty of History, specializing in the history of medicine and psychiatry. With extensive experience in East, Southern, and Central Africa, his work has been shaped by his time serving in the Peace Corps in the Democratic Republic of Congo. His recent research has focused on East Africa, particularly Kenya and Zanzibar, where he examines the interplay of photography and visual sources related to neurology and psychiatry. He teaches and supervises various topics, including the history of global psychiatry, colonialism in psychiatry, history photography, oral history of lived experiences, and the history of medicine in Africa. His current project involves investigating the history of psychiatry within the lens of late colonial Kenya, using unique photographic collections from a Canadian psychiatrist. Mahone's approach combines historical narrative with visual documentation, analyzing the role images play in storytelling within the medical field. He is also involved in comparative studies of epilepsy and neurology in Africa, contributing to the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology.

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