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Beyond the asylum : mental illness in French colonial Vietnam / Claire Edington.
LIBRA RC451.V5 E35 2019
Available from offsite location
- 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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