Imperial bedlam : institutions of madness in colonial southwest Nigeria /

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...

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Author / Creator: Sadowsky, Jonathan Hal.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:English.
Imprint: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1999.
Series:Medicine and society ; 10.
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