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Author Heaton, Matthew M.

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

Publication Info. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (261 pages).
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Series New African histories
New African histories series.
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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Psychiatry -- Nigeria -- History.
Cultural psychiatry -- Nigeria.
Mentally ill -- Care -- Nigeria -- History.
Mental illness -- Treatment -- Nigeria -- History.
Nigeria -- Colonial influence -- Health aspects -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Heaton, Matthew M. Black skin, white cocats : Nigerian psychiatrists, decolonization, and the globalization of psychiatry. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013 New African histories 9780821420706 (DLC) 2013027515
ISBN 9780821420706 (pb : alk. paper)
9780821444733 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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