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Black skin, white coats :

by Heaton, Matthew M. Series: New African histories Physical details: 1 online resource (261 pages). ISBN:9780821444733 (e-book).
Subject(s): Psychiatry -- Nigeria -- History. | Cultural psychiatry -- Nigeria. | Mentally ill -- Care -- Nigeria -- History. | Mental illness -- Treatment -- Nigeria -- History. | Nigeria -- Colonial influence -- Health aspects -- History. | Electronic books.
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Introduction: Colonizing, decolonizing, and globalizing the history of psychiatry -- Colonial institutions and networks of ethnopsychiatry -- Decolonizing psychiatric institutions and networks -- Mentally ill Nigerian immigrants in the United Kingdom : the international dimensions of decolonizing psychiatry -- Schizophrenia, depression, and "brain-fag syndrome" : diagnosis and the boundaries of culture -- Gatekeepers of the mind : psychotherapy and "traditional" healers -- The paradoxes of psychoactive drugs -- Conclusion: Nigerian psychiatrists and the globalization of psychiatry.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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