Madness in the family : women, care, and illness in Japan / H. Yumi Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, H. Yumi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families of the mentally ill.

Families of the mentally ill--Japan.

Japan.

Medical Subjects:

Japan.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Madness in the Family traces the history of how family became crucial in the care of those considered mad, as well as in creating gendered explanations of madness, in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Japan. As women and families navigated a shifting therapeutic landscape of madness, they produced their own understandings and approaches to madness that, like elsewhere in the world, would take precedence over the claims of psychiatry, the law, and the state in everyday life.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Madness in the Family

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Fox Spirits in Villages

2. Cages in Rural Homes

3. Hysteria in the Marketplace

4. Periodic Crimes in the Courtroom

Epilogue: Postwar Cultures of Gendered Care and Kinship

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Kim, H. Yumi Madness in the Family

ISBN:

0-19-750736-0

0-19-750738-7

0-19-750737-9