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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New African histories seriesPublisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821444733
  • 0821444735
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Black skin, white coatsDDC classification:
  • 362.209669 23
LOC classification:
  • RC438 .H43 2013eb
NLM classification:
  • 2013 K-365
  • WM 11 HN5
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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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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.

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