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Imperial bedlam : institutions of madness in colonial southwest Nigeria / Jonathan Sadowsky.
LIBRA RC451.N5 S23 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sadowsky, Jonathan Hal.
- Series:
- Medicine and society ; 10.
- Medicine and society ; 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychiatric hospitals--Nigeria--History.
- Psychiatric hospitals.
- Mentally ill--Care--Nigeria--History.
- Mentally ill.
- Mentally ill--Care.
- Colonization.
- History.
- Colonial influence.
- Imperialism--Health aspects.
- Imperialism.
- Psychiatry.
- Mental illness--Treatment.
- Nigeria.
- Mental illness--Treatment--Nigeria--History.
- Mental illness.
- Psychiatry--Nigeria--History.
- Imperialism--Health aspects--Nigeria--History.
- Nigeria--Colonial influence--Health aspects--History.
- Nigeria--Colonization--Health aspects--History.
- Hospitals, Psychiatric--history.
- Colonialism.
- Medical Subjects:
- Hospitals, Psychiatric--history.
- Nigeria.
- Colonialism.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 169 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1999]
- Summary:
- An elegantly-argued study of insane asylums in colonial Nigeria. The author uses fascinating sources, including writings of the inmates, to explore the cultural variations of madness, and the colonial contradictions of psychiatric theory.
- Notes:
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Johns Hopkins University, 1993).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-166) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520216172
- 0520216164
- OCLC:
- 40674921
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