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Imperial bedlam : institutions of madness in colonial southwest Nigeria /

Main Author: Sadowsky, Jonathan Hal.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1999.
Series:Medicine and society ; 10
Subjects:
Psychiatric hospitals > History. > Nigeria
Mentally ill > Care > Nigeria > History.
Mental illness > Treatment > Nigeria > History.
Psychiatry > History. > Nigeria
Imperialism > Health aspects > Nigeria > History.
Hospitals, Psychiatric > History. > history.
PSYCHOLOGY > History. > Mental Health.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
Colonial influence > Health aspects.
Colonization > Health aspects.
Imperialism > Health aspects.
Mental illness > Treatment.
Mentally ill > Care.
Psychiatric hospitals.
Nigeria > Colonial influence > Health aspects > History.
Nigeria > Colonization > Health aspects
Nigeria.
Nigeria > Colonization > Health aspects > History.
Nigeria > Colonial influence > Health aspects
Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=21343
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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