Black schizophrenia.

Date:
1989
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Description

Studies claim that people of Afro-Caribbean descent are ten times more vulnerable to schizophrenia. This programme attempts to verify this finding and to ask why that might be. We look back at the1960s where doctors first started to notice that there was a high incidence of schizophrenia in Jamaican immigrants and pay a visit to Bellevue Hospital, the largest mental hospital in the Caribbean where the incidence of new cases of schizophrenia is about the same as it is in the Western world. Do blacks moving to the UK do so because of already implicit schizophrenic tendencies, or does the move to a totally different cultural environment bring on a schizophrenic breakdown?

Publication/Creation

BBC TV, 1989.

Physical description

1 DVD (50 min.) : sound, color, PAL.

Series

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BBC TV

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