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Contemporary West African States
  • Edited by Donal Cruise O'Brien, John Dunn, Richard Rathbone
  • Published online:
    10 December 2009
    Print publication:
    26 January 1990
  • The West African states have reached maturity. This new volume - appearing a decade after the successful West African States: Failure and Promise - provides up-to-date studies of nine states, including Chad, Burkina Faso and Cameroon, which were neglected in the earlier volume, and introduces contemporary theories of West African politics. The book reflects changes on the ground and also in academic debate, notably the remarkable retreat of dependency theory and Marxian analysis and the rise of free-market theorising by both governments and scholars. The volume also contains important observations on the political importance of religious fundamentalism in the region, and the growth of sub-national forms of political activity. The writers are well-known scholars in the field, and include contributors to the influential journal Politique Africaine. This will be a useful textbook for everyone interested in African politics, but it is also a provocative contribution to the debate on the nature of the state and political processes in Africa.

  • Chinese herbal medicine for schizophrenia: Cochrane systematic review of randomised trials

  • John Rathbone, Lan Zhang, Mingming Zhang, Jun Xia, Xiehe Liu, Yanchun Yang, Clive Elliott Adams
  • Journal:
    The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 190 / Issue 5 / May 2007
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2018, pp. 379-384
    Print publication:
    May 2007
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  • Background

    Chinese herbal medicine has been used to treat millions of people with schizophrenia for thousands of years.

    Aims

    To evaluate Chinese herbal medicine as a treatment for schizophrenia.

    Method

    A systematic review of randomised controlled trials (RCTs).

    Results

    Seven trials were included. Most studies evaluated Chinese herbal medicine in combination with Western antipsychotic drugs; in these trials results tended to favour combination treatment compared with antipsychotic alone (Clinical Global Impression ‘not improved/worse’ n= 123, RR=0.19, 95% CI 0.1-0.6, NNT=6,95% CI 5–11; n=109, Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale ‘not improved/worse’ RR=0.78,95% CI 0.5-1.2; n=109, Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms ‘not improved/worse’ RR=0.87,95% CI 0.7-1.2; n= 109, Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms ‘not improved/worse’ RR=0.69,95% CI 0.5-1.0, NNT=6 95% CI 4-162). Medium-term study attrition was significantly less for people allocated the herbal/antipsychotic mix (n=897, four RCTs, RR=0.34,95% CI 0.2–0.7, NNT=23,95% CI 18-43).

    Conclusions

    Results suggest that combining Chinese herbal medicine with antipsychotics is beneficial.

  • Preface

  • Edited by Donal Cruise O'Brien, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, John Dunn, University of Cambridge and King's College, Cambridge, Richard Rathbone, University of London
  • Book:
    Contemporary West African States
    Published online:
    10 December 2009
    Print publication:
    26 January 1990, pp vii-viii

  • Summary

    The authors of these studies have wished both to review the significant changes which have taken place in the region in the ten years that have followed the publication of West African States. Failure and Promise (John Dunn, ed., Cambridge University Press, 1978) and to assess the shifts that have taken place in the scholarly analysis of these states over the same period. The studies have emerged from a small conference held at the School of Oriental and African Studies in June 1987, where scholars were invited to contribute papers on particular countries of the region. Contributors were asked to use narrative as the foundation of their analysis, so that the volume might be a useful text book as well as a contribution to a review of the nature of the state and political processes in Africa.

    A decade's political change in the region is marked in one way by the inclusion of new areas of interest: the chapters on Chad, Burkina Faso and Cameroon are intended to match the changing concerns in the field with data on areas untouched in the previous volume. Both the introduction and the conclusion suggest the salient thematic shifts: these include the remarkable retreat of dependency theory and Marxian analysis and the rise of free-market theorising on the part both of governments and of scholars.