Imperial Bedlam : Institutions of Madness in Colonial Southwest Nigeria
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Medicine and Society
ISBN-10
0520216172
ISBN-13
9780520216174
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 24th, 1999
Print length
180 Pages
Weight
272 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 1.30 cms
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A study that examines writings by African patients in asylums 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. It shows how contradictions inherent in colonialism were articulated in both asylum policy and psychiatric theory.
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