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UNINA9910818417003321 |
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Autore |
Heaton Matthew M |
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Black skin, white coats : Nigerian psychiatrists, decolonization, and the globalization of psychiatry / / Matthew M. Heaton |
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Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (265 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Psychiatry - Nigeria - History |
Cultural psychiatry - Nigeria |
Mentally ill - Care - Nigeria - History |
Mental illness - Treatment - Nigeria - History |
Nigeria Colonial influence Health aspects History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Colonizing, decolonizing, and globalizing the history of psychiatry -- Colonial institutions and networks of ethnopsychiatry -- Decolonizing psychiatric institutions and networks -- Mentally ill Nigerian immigrants in the United Kingdom : the international dimensions of decolonizing psychiatry -- Schizophrenia, depression, and "brain-fag syndrome" : diagnosis and the boundaries of culture -- Gatekeepers of the mind : psychotherapy and "traditional" healers -- The paradoxes of psychoactive drugs -- Conclusion: Nigerian psychiatrists and the globalization of psychiatry. |
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Black Skin, White Coats is a history of psychiatry in Nigeria from the 1950's to the 1980's. Working in the contexts of decolonization and anti-colonial nationalism, Nigerian psychiatrists sought to replace racist colonial psychiatric theories about the psychological inferiority of Africans with a universal and egalitarian model focusing on broad psychological similarities across cultural and racial boundaries. Particular emphasis is placed on Dr. T. Adeoye Lambo, the first indigenous Nigerian to earn a specialty degree in psychiatry in the United Kingdom in 1954. Lambo returned to Nigeria to be |
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