Imperial bedlam
Subtitle: institutions of madness in colonial southwest Nigeria
By: Jonathan Sadowsky.
Series: Medicine and society ;; 10
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: Psychiatric hospitals -- Nigeria -- History; Mentally ill -- Care -- Nigeria -- History; Mental illness -- Treatment -- Nigeria -- History; Psychiatry -- Nigeria -- History; Imperialism -- Health aspects -- Nigeria -- History; Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history -- Nigeria; Nigeria -- Colonial influence -- Health aspects -- History; Nigeria -- Colonization -- Health aspects -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-166) and index.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Johns Hopkins University, 1993.