Black skin, white coats : Nigerian psychiatrists, decolonization, and the globalization of psychiatry /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heaton, Matthew M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013.
Series:New African histories series.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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.