Friday 11am — History Speaker Series presents Dr. Nana Osei Quarshie

[Wendy Philpott]

Good morning!

[A person smiling in front of a brick wall  Description automatically generated]Tomorrow, please join the Department of History Speaker Series for a talk by Dr. Nana Osei Quarshie, Assistant Professor in the History of Science and Medicine at Yale University, titled Thorazine and Terror: The Politics of Mental Healing in Accra, Ghana, 1952-1972.

The talk will examine the evolution of care at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital in the context of Accra shifting from a colonial capital to the capital city of an independent nation-state, 1951-1966. EB Forster, the first African-born psychiatrist practicing in sub-Saharan Africa and the medical officer in charge of psychiatry in late-colonial and independence Ghana, introduced the anti-psychotic Largactil (known in the USA as Thorazine) to the Accra Psychiatric Hospital.
Read more about the talk<https://uwaterloo.ca/arts/events/history-speaker-series-presents-dr-nana-osei-quarshie>.

Friday, January 14, 11am to 12:30pm
Please register to attend this online event<https://uwaterloo.ca/arts/register-attend-history-speaker-series-jan-14>



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