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Examines psychiatric epidemiology's unique evolution, conceptually
and socially, within and between diverse regions and cultures,
underscoring its growing influence on the biopolitics of nations
and worldwide health campaigns. Psychiatric epidemiology, like the
epidemiology of cancer, heart disease, or AIDS, contributes
increasingly to shaping the biopolitics of nations and worldwide
health campaigns. Despite the field's importance, this is the first
volume of historical scholarship addressing psychiatric
epidemiology. It seeks to comprehensively trace the development of
the discipline and the mobilization of its constructs, methods, and
tools to further social ends. It is through this double
lens-conceptual and social-that it envisions the history of
psychiatric epidemiology. Furthermore, its chapters constitute
elements for that history as a global phenomenon, formed by
multiple approaches. Those numerous historical paths have not
resulted in a uniform disciplinary field based on a common
paradigm, as happened arguably in the epidemiology of
cardiovascular disease and cancer, but in a plurality of
psychiatric epidemiologies driven by different intellectual
questions, political strategies, reformist ideals, national
cultures, colonial experiences, international influences, and
social control objectives. When examined together, the chapters
depict an uneven global development of epidemiologies formed within
distinct political-cultural regions but influenced by the
transnational circulation and selective uptake of concepts,
techniques, and expertise. These moved through multidirectional
pathways between and within the Global North and South. Authored by
historians, anthropologists, and psychiatrists, chapters trace this
complex history, focusing on Brazil, Nigeria, Senegal, India,
Taiwan, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada, as
well as multicountry networks.
"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 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.
"Black Skin, White Coats" 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, "Black Skin, White Coats" provides a foil
to Frantz Fanon's widely publicized reactionary articulations of
the relationship between colonialism and psychiatry. "Black Skin,
White Coats" 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.
A comprehensive view of health issues currently plaguing Africa,
with an emphasis on the HIV/AIDS pandemic. HIV/AIDS, Illness and
African Well-Being highlights the specific health problems facing
Africa today, most particularly the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Taking a
multi-disciplinary approach, the book presents not only various
healthcrises, but also the larger historical and contemporary
contexts within which they must be understood and managed. Chapters
offering analysis of specific illness case studies, and the effects
of globalization and underdevelopmenton health, provide an
overarching context in which HIV/AIDS and other health-related
concerns can be understood. The contributions on the HIV/AIDS
pandemic grapple with the complications of national and
international policies, thesociological effects of the pandemic,
and policy options for the future. HIV/AIDS, Illness and African
Well-Being thus provides a comprehensive view of health issues
currently plaguing the continent and the many differentways that
scholars are interpreting the health outlook in Africa.
Contributors: Obijiofor Aginam, Yacouba Banhoro, Richard Beilock,
Charity Chenga, Mandi Chikombero, Kaley Creswell, Freek Cronje,
Frank N. F. Dadzie, Gabriel B. Fosu, Stephen Obeng-Manu Gyimah,
Kathryn H. Jacobsen, W. Bediako Lamouse-Smith, William N. Mkanta,
Gerald M. Mumma, Kalala Ngalamulume, Raphael Chijioke Njoku,
Cecilia S. Obeng, Iruka N. Okeke, Akpen Philip, Baffour K. Takyi,
Melissa K. Van Dyke, Sophie Wertheimer, Ellen A. S. Whitney Toyin
Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the
Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the
University of Texas atAustin. Matthew M. Heaton is a PhD candidate
at the University of Texas at Austin.
Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and the world's eighth
largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in recent
decades by ethnic and religious conflict, political instability,
rampant official corruption and an ailing economy. Toyin Falola, a
leading historian intimately acquainted with the region, and
Matthew Heaton, who has worked extensively on African science and
culture, combine their expertise to explain the context to
Nigeria's recent troubles through an exploration of its
pre-colonial and colonial past, and its journey from independence
to statehood. By examining key themes such as colonialism,
religion, slavery, nationalism and the economy, the authors show
how Nigeria's history has been swayed by the vicissitudes of the
world around it, and how Nigerians have adapted to meet these
challenges. This book offers a unique portrayal of a resilient
people living in a country with immense, but unrealized, potential.
The Historical Dictionary of Nigeria: Second Edition introduces
Nigeria's rich and complex history. Readers will find a wealth of
information on pre-20th century history, Nigeria under British
colonial rule, and important post-independence issues while
providing greater attention to Nigeria's role in international
relations, diaspora, and contributions to arts, film and culture in
particular. This revised edition covers major developments since
the last edition such as the rise of the terrorist group Boko Haram
and the election of Muhammadu Buhari to the presidency in 2015
among others. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of
Nigeria: Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and
an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,000
cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics,
economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an
excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to
know more about Nigeria..
Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and the world's eighth
largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in recent
decades by ethnic and religious conflict, political instability,
rampant official corruption and an ailing economy. Toyin Falola, a
leading historian intimately acquainted with the region, and
Matthew Heaton, who has worked extensively on African science and
culture, combine their expertise to explain the context to
Nigeria's recent troubles through an exploration of its
pre-colonial and colonial past, and its journey from independence
to statehood. By examining key themes such as colonialism,
religion, slavery, nationalism and the economy, the authors show
how Nigeria's history has been swayed by the vicissitudes of the
world around it, and how Nigerians have adapted to meet these
challenges. This book offers a unique portrayal of a resilient
people living in a country with immense, but unrealized, potential.
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