植民地期英領アフリカにおける精神保健施設(研究課題:サハラ以南アフリカの精神保健福祉分野へのオプティマル・トリートメント・プロジェクト(OTP)導入に関するフィージビリティ研究,I 共同研究)

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The aim of this article is to examine historical development of mental health institutions in British Africa during the colonial period, paying attention to Sierra Leone, Gold Coast (Ghana), Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), Nyasaland (Malawi), Kenya, and Nigeria. In the British territories, the insane were often treated like wild beasts. Lunatics who caused serious troubles were detained in prisons, chained like felon in dank, pestilential cell. The call for special institutions like lunatic asylums rose, and they were gradually established by the colonial governments in the various parts of British Africa. Later the most of the lunatic asylums were transformed to modern mental hospitals.
龍谷大学の論文
2006-05-31