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Author Heaton, Matthew M., author

Title Black skin, white coats : Nigerian psychiatrists, decolonization, and the globalization of psychiatry / Matthew M. Heaton
Published Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
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
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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Subject 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
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
SUBJECT Nigeria -- Colonial influence -- Health aspects -- History
Nigeria
Subject Nigeria
Nigeria
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780821444733
0821444735