Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry
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Black Skin, White Coats is a history of psychiatry in Nigeria from the 1950s to the 1980s. Working in the contexts of decolonization and anticolonial nationalism, Nigerian psychiatrists sought to replace racist colonial psychiatric theories about the psychological inferiority of Africans with a universal and egalitarian model focusing on broad psychological similarities across cultural and racial boundaries. Particular emphasis is placed...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0821420704
ISBN13:9780821420706
Release Date:October 2013
Publisher:Ohio University Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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