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

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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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