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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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New African histories
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New African histories series.
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| 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 -- Paradoxes of psychoactive drugs -- Conclusion: Nigerian psychiatrists and the globalization of psychiatry. |
| Summary |
Black Skin, White Coats is a history of psychiatry in Nigeria from the 1950s to the 1980s. Working in the contexts of decolonization and anticolonial 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Psychiatry -- Nigeria -- History.
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Psychiatry. |
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Nigeria. |
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History. |
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Cultural psychiatry -- Nigeria.
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Cultural psychiatry. |
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Mentally ill -- Care -- Nigeria -- History.
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Mentally ill -- Care. |
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Mental illness -- Treatment -- Nigeria -- History.
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Mental illness -- Treatment. |
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Nigeria -- Colonial influence -- Health aspects -- History.
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Colonial influence. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Heaton, Matthew M., author. Black skin, white coats 9780821420706 (DLC) 2013027515 (OCoLC)852958109 |
| ISBN |
9780821444733 (electronic book) |
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0821444735 (electronic book) |
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9780821420706 |
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0821420704 |
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