TY  - GEN
T1  - Imperial bedlam : institutions of madness in colonial southwest Nigeria
T2  - Medicine and society ;
A1  - Sadowsky, Jonathan Hal
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 1999
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm44960013
AB  - This historical study examines primary source material, writings by African patients in these institutions and the reports of officials, doctors, and others, to discuss the meaning of madness in Nigeria, the development of colonial psychiatry, and the connections between them. This book follows the development of insane asylums from their origins in the nineteenth century to innovative treatment programs developed by Nigerian physicians during the transition to independence. Special attention is given to the writings of those considered "lunatics," a perspective relatively neglected in previous studies of psychiatric institutions in Africa and most other parts of the world.
OP  - 169
CN  - RC451.N5 S23 1999eb
SN  - 9780520921856
SN  - 0520921852
SN  - 0585119783
SN  - 9780585119786
SN  - 0520216164
SN  - 0520216172
KW  - Psychiatric hospitals : Nigeria : History.
KW  - Mentally ill : Care : Nigeria : History.
KW  - Mental illness : Treatment : Nigeria : History.
KW  - Psychiatry : Nigeria : History.
KW  - Imperialism : Health aspects : Nigeria : History.
KW  - Nigeria : Colonial influence : Health aspects : History.
KW  - Nigeria : Colonization : Health aspects : History.
KW  - Hospitals, Psychiatric : history
KW  - Colonialism
KW  - Nigeria
KW  - Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale : Soins : Nigeria : Histoire.
KW  - Maladies mentales : Traitement : Nigeria : Histoire.
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY : Mental Health.
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY : Mental Illness.
KW  - MEDICAL : Mental Health.
KW  - HISTORY / Africa / General
KW  - Colonial influence : Health aspects
KW  - Colonization : Health aspects
KW  - Imperialism : Health aspects
KW  - Mental illness : Treatment
KW  - Mentally ill : Care
KW  - Psychiatric hospitals
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - Kolonialismus
KW  - Psychiatrische Versorgung
KW  - Nigeria : Südwest
KW  - Koloniaal bestuur.
KW  - Psychiatrische inrichtingen.
KW  - Nigeria (Südwest)
KW  - History
ER  -