Ebook: Black skin, white coats : Nigerian psychiatrists, decolonization, and the globalization of psychiatry
Author: Heaton Matthew M.
- Tags: Psychiatry Nigeria History Cultural psychiatry Mentally ill Care Mental illness Treatment Colonial influence Health aspects POLITICAL SCIENCE Public Policy Social Security Services Welfare
- Series: New African histories series.
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Ohio University Press
- City: Nigeria, Nigeria.
- Language: English
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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. Read more...