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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Heaton, Matthew M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013.
Series:New African histories series.
Subjects:
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
Mental illness > Treatment
Mentally ill > Care
Psychiatry
Akkulturation
Entkolonialisierung
Psychiatrische Versorgung
Rassenintegration
Volksmedizin
Nigeria > Colonial influence > Health aspects > History.
Nigeria
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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