{"product_id":"black-skin-white-coats-nigerian-psychiatrists-decolonization-and-the-globalization-of-psychiatry-paperback","title":"Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatthew M. Heaton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Skin, White Coats\u003c\/i\u003e 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 on Dr. T. Adeoye Lambo, the first indigenous Nigerian to earn a specialty degree in psychiatry in the United Kingdom in 1954. Lambo returned to Nigeria to become the medical superintendent of the newly founded Aro Mental Hospital in Abeokuta, Nigeria's first \"modern\" mental hospital. At Aro, Lambo began to revolutionize psychiatric research and clinical practice in Nigeria, working to integrate \"modern\" western medical theory and technologies with \"traditional\" cultural understandings of mental illness. Lambo's research focused on deracializing psychiatric thinking and redefining mental illness in terms of a model of universal human similarities that crossed racial and cultural divides.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Skin, White Coats\u003c\/i\u003e is the first work to focus primarily on black Africans as producers of psychiatric knowledge and as definers of mental illness in their own right. By examining the ways that Nigerian psychiatrists worked to integrate their psychiatric training with their indigenous backgrounds and cultural and civic nationalisms, \u003ci\u003eBlack Skin, White Coats\u003c\/i\u003e provides a foil to Frantz Fanon's widely publicized reactionary articulations of the relationship between colonialism and psychiatry. \u003ci\u003eBlack Skin, White Coats\u003c\/i\u003e is also on the cutting edge of histories of psychiatry that are increasingly drawing connections between local and national developments in late-colonial and postcolonial settings and international scientific networks. Heaton argues that Nigerian psychiatrists were intimately aware of the need to engage in international discourses as part and parcel of the transformation of psychiatry at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthew M. Heaton\u003c\/b\u003e is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Virginia Tech.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 266\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130245615751,"sku":"9780821420706","price":62.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/90ac424c961e43a97bbe32df23341f66.webp?v=1732609518","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/black-skin-white-coats-nigerian-psychiatrists-decolonization-and-the-globalization-of-psychiatry-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}