Imperial bedlam : institutions of madness in colonial southwest Nigeria /

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...

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Tác giả chính: Sadowsky, Jonathan Hal
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1999.
Loạt:Medicine and society ; 10.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=21343
Mục lục:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Nineteenth Century: From Pity to Alarm
  • 3. Material Conditions and the Politics of Care
  • 4. "Proper Subjects for Confinement"
  • 5. The Confinements of Isaac O.: A Case of "Acute Mania"
  • 6. Psychiatry and Colonial Ideology
  • 7. Conclusion.