Imperial Bedlam - Institutions of Madness in Colonial Southwest Nigeria

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Sadowsky is Assistant Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University. Klappentext " Imperial Bedlam is an intelligent, elegantly written discussion of cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary debates over the nature and determinants of madness in a colonial setting."—Sara Berry, Johns Hopkins University Zusammenfassung 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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• Authors: J. Sadowsky, Jonathan Sadowsky, Jonathan Hal Sadowsky, Sadowsky Jonathan
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.09.1999
• EAN: 9780520216174
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21617-4
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: Medicine and Society; Medicine and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; History, PSYCHOLOGY / General, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, Psychology, African History