ʻAṣfūriyyeh : a history of madness, modernity, and war in the Middle East / Joelle M. Abi-Rached.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abi-Rached, Joelle M., 1979- author.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Culture and psychiatry.

Culture and psychiatry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatric hospitals--Lebanon--History.

Psychiatric hospitals.

Mental illness--Treatment--Lebanon--History.

Mental illness.

Mental illness--Lebanon--History.

Psychiatry--Lebanon--History.

Psychiatry.

Mental illness--Treatment--Middle East--History.

Mental illness--Middle East--History.

Psychiatry--Middle East--History.

Mental illness--Treatment.

Hospitals, Psychiatric--history.

Mental Disorders--therapy.

Psychiatry--history.

History.

Lebanon.

Middle East.

Medical Subjects:

Hospitals, Psychiatric--history.

Mental Disorders--therapy.

Psychiatry--history.

Lebanon.

Middle East.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 309 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]

Summary:

"How ʻAṣfūriyyeh, one of the first modern psychiatric hospitals in the the Middle East, influenced the complex relationships between pathology and modernity in the region (and beyond)"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Oriental Madness and Civilization

2. The Struggle for Influence and the Birth of Psychiatry

3. The Rise of `Asfuriyyeh and the Decline of Missions'

4. Patriarchal Power and the Gospel of the Modern Care of Insanity

5. The Downfall of `Asfuriyyeh and the Breakdown of the State'

6. The Politics of Health, Charity, and Sectarianism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780262044745

0262044749

OCLC:

1140676839

Publisher Number:

99986765338