Imperial bedlam : institutions of madness in colonial southwest Nigeria /

This historical study examines primary source material, writings by African patients in these institutions and the reports of officials, doctors, and others, to discuss the meaning of madness in Nigeria, the development of colonial psychiatry, and the connections between them. This book follows the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sadowsky, Jonathan Hal
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1999.
Colección:Medicine and society ; 10.
Temas:
Psychiatric hospitals > Nigeria > History.
Mentally ill > Care > Nigeria > History.
Mental illness > Treatment > Nigeria > History.
Psychiatry > Nigeria > History.
Imperialism > Health aspects > Nigeria > History.
Hospitals, Psychiatric > history
Colonialism
Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale > Soins > Nigeria > Histoire.
Maladies mentales > Traitement > Nigeria > Histoire.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Health.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
HISTORY / Africa / General
Colonial influence > Health aspects.
Colonization > Health aspects.
Imperialism > Health aspects.
Mental illness > Treatment.
Mentally ill > Care.
Psychiatric hospitals.
Psychiatry.
Kolonialismus
Psychiatrische Versorgung
Koloniaal bestuur.
Psychiatrische inrichtingen.
Psychiatrische Versorgung.
Kolonialismus.
Nigeria > Colonial influence > Health aspects > History.
Nigeria > Colonization > Health aspects > History.
Nigeria
Nigeria.
Nigeria > Südwest
Nigeria (Südwest)
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Nineteenth Century: From Pity to Alarm
  • 3. Material Conditions and the Politics of Care
  • 4. "Proper Subjects for Confinement"
  • 5. The Confinements of Isaac O.: A Case of "Acute Mania"
  • 6. Psychiatry and Colonial Ideology
  • 7. Conclusion.

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