Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry

by Matthew M. Heaton

Book Overview

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"