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Beyond the asylum : mental illness in French colonial Vietnam / Claire Edington.

LIBRA RC451.V5 E35 2019
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Edington, Claire E., 1984- author.
Series:
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Mental illness--Social aspects--Vietnam--History.
Mental illness.
Mentally ill--Care--Vietnam--History.
Mentally ill.
Mentally ill--Vietnam--Social conditions.
Psychiatry--Vietnam--History.
Psychiatry.
Psychiatric hospitals--Vietnam--History.
Psychiatric hospitals.
Mental illness--Social aspects.
Mentally ill--Care.
Mentally ill--Social conditions.
History.
Social conditions.
Vietnam.
Psychiatry--history.
Mentally Ill Persons--history.
Hospitals, Psychiatric--history.
Medical Subjects:
Psychiatry--history.
Mentally Ill Persons--history.
Hospitals, Psychiatric--history.
Vietnam.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
xiii, 291 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2019.
Summary:
"This book looks beyond the asylum to consider how psychiatry in French colonial Vietnam was produced in everyday exchanges between lay people and experts"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction : getting out of the asylum : writing the social history of psychiatry in French colonial Vietnam
The legal category of the " insane" person in French Indochina : a background to confinement
Patients, staff and the everyday challenges of asylum administration
Labor as therapy : agricultural colonies and the re-education of the insane
Going in and getting out of the colonial asylum : families and the politics of caregiving
Mental illness and treatment advice in the Vietnamese popular press
Psychiatric expertise and Indochina's crime problem.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Format:
Online version: Edington, Claire, 1984- author. Beyond the asylum
ISBN:
9781501733932
1501733931
OCLC:
1055265142

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