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Black skin, white coats : Nigerian psychiatrists, decolonization, and the globalization of psychiatry / Matthew M. Heaton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heaton, Matthew M.
- Series:
- New African histories series.
- New African histories.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychiatry--Nigeria--History.
- Psychiatry.
- Cultural psychiatry--Nigeria.
- Cultural psychiatry.
- Mentally ill--Care--Nigeria--History.
- Mentally ill.
- Mental illness--Treatment--Nigeria--History.
- Mental illness.
- Nigeria--Colonial influence--Health aspects--History.
- Nigeria.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780821444733
- 0821444735
- OCLC:
- 860711594
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