Stark roving mad : the repatriation of Nigerian mental patients and the global construction of mental illness, 1906-1960
This dissertation examines the repatriation of Nigerian mental patients during Nigeria’s colonial period. In so doing, it explores how racist and paternalistic definitions of the “African mind” developed in the colonial context implicitly influenced psychiatric and governmental officials’ opinions a...
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| Language: | English |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/18352 |