Mental health in Africa
By: edited by Olayiwola A. Erinosho and Norman W. Bell.
Contributors: Erinosho, Olayiwola A.; Bell, Norman W.; International Sociological Association. Research Committee on the Sociology of Mental Health.
Series: Ibadan University Press tropical medicine series ;; 3; Ibadan tropical medicine series ;; 3.
Publisher: Ibadan University Press; Research Committee on the Sociology of Mental Health
Published: 1982
Place of publication: [Ibadan]; Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Mental health -- Africa -- Congresses.; Mental health services -- Africa -- Congresses.
Description: This is the first book which deals with a wide range of topics based on research by scholars in many parts of the Continent. The majority of the papers in this volume were read at the first international regional conference of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Mental Health, of the International Sociological Association. The papers focus on the widely shared concept of mental illness in a number of sub-groups in Africa, psychiatric epidemiology, the development of mental health serices, as well as on the attitudes of a variety of sub-groups to psychiatric disorder.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 248-262.