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Author Sadowsky, Jonathan Hal

Title Imperial bedlam : institutions of madness in colonial southwest Nigeria / Jonathan Sadowsky
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 169 pages)
Series Medicine and society ; 10
Medicine and society ; 10.
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
Summary 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 development of insane asylums from their origins in the nineteenth century to innovative treatment programs developed by Nigerian physicians during the transition to independence. Special attention is given to the writings of those considered "lunatics," a perspective relatively neglected in previous studies of psychiatric institutions in Africa and most other parts of the world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-166) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Psychiatric hospitals -- Nigeria -- History
Mentally ill -- Care -- Nigeria -- History
Mental illness -- Treatment -- Nigeria -- History
Psychiatry -- Nigeria -- History
Imperialism -- Health aspects -- Nigeria -- History
Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history
Colonialism
PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness.
MEDICAL -- Mental Health.
HISTORY / Africa / General
Colonial influence -- Health aspects
Colonization -- Health aspects
Imperialism -- Health aspects
Mental illness -- Treatment
Mentally ill -- Care
Psychiatric hospitals
Psychiatry
Kolonialismus
Psychiatrische Versorgung
Koloniaal bestuur.
Psychiatrische inrichtingen.
SUBJECT Nigeria -- Colonial influence -- Health aspects -- History
Nigeria -- Colonization -- Health aspects -- History
Nigeria https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009549
Subject Nigeria
Nigeria -- Südwest
Nigeria (Südwest)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520921856
0520921852
0585119783
9780585119786