Black skin, white coats : Nigerian psychiatrists, decolonization, and the globalization of psychiatry / Matthew M. Heaton.

  • Heaton, Matthew M.
Date:
[2013]
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Publication/Creation

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2013]

Physical description

x, 249 pages ; 23 cm.

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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-244) and index.

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    History of Medicine
    PP.149.AA9-10
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ISBN

  • 9780821420706
  • 0821420704
  • 9780821444733
  • 0821444735