Black skin, white coats : Nigerian psychiatrists, decolonization, and the globalization of psychiatry /

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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 univ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heaton, Matthew M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013.
Colección:New African histories series.
Temas:
Psychiatry > Nigeria > History.
Cultural psychiatry > Nigeria.
Mentally ill > Care > Nigeria > History.
Mental illness > Treatment > Nigeria > History.
Mental illness > Treatment.
Psychiatry > history
Ethnopsychology > history
Mental Disorders > therapy
Colonialism > history
Internationality > history
History, 20th Century
Ethnopsychiatrie > Nigeria.
Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale > Soins > Nigeria > Histoire.
Maladies mentales > Traitement > Nigeria > Histoire.
Maladies mentales > Traitement.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Colonial influence > Health aspects.
Cultural psychiatry.
Mentally ill > Care.
Psychiatry.
Akkulturation
Entkolonialisierung
Psychiatrische Versorgung
Rassenintegration
Volksmedizin
Nigeria > Colonial influence > Health aspects > History.
Nigeria
Nigeria.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
ISBN:9780821444733
0821444735

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