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Autore: | Heaton Matthew M |
Titolo: | Black skin, white coats : Nigerian psychiatrists, decolonization, and the globalization of psychiatry / / Matthew M. Heaton |
Pubblicazione: | Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.209669 |
Soggetto topico: | Psychiatry - Nigeria - History |
Cultural psychiatry - Nigeria | |
Mentally ill - Care - Nigeria - History | |
Mental illness - Treatment - Nigeria - History | |
Soggetto geografico: | Nigeria Colonial influence Health aspects History |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Black skin, white coats |
ISBN: | 0-8214-4473-5 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910818417003321 |
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