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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.
- Series:
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (246 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : The MIT Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "How 'Asfuriyyeh, 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:
- Oriental Madness and Civilization
- The Struggle for Influence and the Birth of Psychiatry
- The Rise of ʻAṣfūriyyeh and the Decline of Missions
- Patriarchal Power and The Gospel of the Modern Care of Insanity
- The Downfall of ʻAṣfūriyyeh and the Breakdown of the State
- The Politics of Health, Charity, and Sectarianism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-36117-5
- 0-262-36118-3
- OCLC:
- 1190759233
- Publisher Number:
- 9780262361170
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