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The invention of madness : state, society, and the insane in modern China / Emily Baum.
Van Pelt Library RC339.C4 B395 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baum, Emily, author.
- Series:
- Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mental illness--China--History--20th century.
- Mental illness.
- Mental health services--China--History--20th century.
- Mental health services.
- History.
- China.
- Mentally Ill Persons--history.
- Mental Health Services--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Mentally Ill Persons--history.
- Mental Health Services--history.
- China.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 267 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- Contracting the "mad illness"
- The birth of the Chinese asylum, 1901-1918
- The institutionalization of madness, 1910s-1920s
- The psychiatric entrepreneur, 1920s-1930s
- From madness to mental illness, 1928-1935
- Mental hygiene and political control, 1928-1937
- Between the mad and the mentally ill.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226580616
- 022658061X
- 9780226558240
- 022655824X
- OCLC:
- 1028612340
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