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African Pharmakon : The Asylum As Shrine from Slavery to the Return.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quarshie, Nana Osei.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spirituality.
- West Africans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (366 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Explores how psychiatry in Ghana was never just about medicine; it was about migration, exile, and the politics of who gets to stay and who must be cast out.For centuries, mental distress in West Africa has been subject to a mix of healing, harming, ritual, and regulation.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 0-226-83917-6
- 9780226839172
- OCLC:
- 1564060226
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