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Imperial Bedlam: Institutions of Madness in Colonial Southwest Nigeria (Medicine and Society)
Imperial Bedlam Institutions of Madness in Colonial Southwest Nigeria - Medicine and Society
Author: Jonathan Sadowsky
The colonial government of southern Nigeria began to use asylums to confine the allegedly insane in 1906. These asylums were administered by the British but confined Africans. Yet, as even many in the government recognized, insanity is a condition that shows cultural variation. Who decided the inmates were insane and how? This sophisticated ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520216167
ISBN-10: 0520216164
Publication Date: 9/24/1999
Pages: 169
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Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Book Type: Hardcover
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