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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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 語言: | 英语 |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1999.
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| 叢編: | Medicine and society ;
10. |
| 在線閱讀: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=21343 |
書本目錄:
- 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.